in addition reforms seek to attract better prepared individuals to the teaching profession by granting scholarships to top students and giving bonuses to teachers and principals with excellent evaluations oecd c a draft law is in congress proposing major changes in the organisation of the teaching profession including the introduction of a certification process to access the different levels of the teaching career santiago et al the hiring of principals in public schools has also been professionalised and principals now have more liberty to select their management team and to dismiss teachers with bad evaluations