European Commission’s Webinar on Introduction to PISA: PISA for the European Schools

Mr Károly Pála has been working for the European School System since 2004, when he first started as the Hungarian inspector for the secondary cycle. He became the secondary Deputy Head at the European School in Mol (Belgium) in 2008 and later the Director of the European School in Varese (Italy). Since 2019 he has been the Executive Coordinator in the Central Office of the European Schools in Brussels. 

In a wider context, and due to his previous jobs in Hungary, he was also engaged with a wide range of educational activities, first as a teacher and then on administrational level. After teaching for several years, he got involved in duties providing educational services, which then became his main activity. The core areas he was in charge of include national and international student assessment (among others the PISA studies), teacher training and in-service teacher training, curriculum development, school evaluation and counselling. Between 1997 and 2008 he worked as the Director of different agencies and institutions in the area (among others the Budapest Pedagogical Institute and the National Centre for Public Education, Evaluation and Examinations). He has also written several school text books for secondary schools, developed and delivered in-service training sessions in the areas of differentiated instruction, cooperative teaching and learning and other student focussed methodologies.