between and decisions in lower secondary education became more decentralised or remained highly decentralised towards the school or local level in out of countries including norway in the following areas organisation of instruction personnel management planning and structures and use of resources some countries with highly centralised decision making in such as korea italy and portugal where less than of decisions were taken by the school and local levels managed remarkable decentralisation processes and now have about of decision making in the school and local levels in these areas conversely decision making did not change or become further centralised in greece germany luxembourg mexico and spain figure