ABSTRACT
The formal rise in the level of education achieved in the seventies and the general extention of schooling for most juveniles, however, exacerbated the discrepancies between the educational and the occupational system. This is because numerous so-called "mass occupations" suffer from a shortage of recruits. The alterations to the school system envisaged by the reform concentrate on the entrance phase and the senior level. The principle of a uniform basic education, mandatory for all pupils, remains applicable to the general secondary school. Yet at the same time, the reform continues along the path of limited differentiation in the content of the curricula in the senior grades. Public criticism of the work done by schools often culminates in the problem of assessing performance of the pupils primarily, but beyond that of the teachers and the school itself.
