The vocational training in Hungary

Form by:
Dsa Edit practical training-leader

The role of vocational

training
solving

employment problems
development of market economy
advanced qualifications of workers
Opportunities and rates of secondary schooling
in Hungary
vocational school
3 years
special vocational25
school

%
3 years
technical college
4+1-2 years 40%
high school 4 years 35%

The past of vocational

training
Until the 1960s:
3-year state vocational school
Vocational school of workman
Technicians
From 1960: Instead technical vocational school
From 1990:
National Qualifications Register
Professional and examination requirements
2 + 2-year course in vocational schools
higher vocational education

Vocational training nowadays

The

involvement of Commerce and Industry

3-year vocational training
number of training courses in the general
education classes radically reduced
The role of the County Development and Training
Counsil
In technical colleges the proportion of professional
training is increasing
The aim is to increase the number of vocational
trainees
Only the higher vocational institutions of higher
education

The basis of the actual vocational

education law, regulatory scope
The CLXXXVII. of 2011-year law of vocational trainings most
important aims:

The

training structure with regard to staffing of specializations

accommodate to the needs of the economy

Strengthening the role of vocational training in the social inclusion of

disadvantaged young people keep training, in order to be qualified as
employees when enter the labor market

Students are encouraged to get their first state-recognized vocational

qualification, which is a condition precedent to entering the labor
market, in a school-type system.

The scope of the national legislation is within the school-based

vocational education and training and also within certain elements of the
non-formal education.

The dual training

The responsibility and costs of tasks shared by the
state and the economy.
Its origins can be found in the medieval crafts
guilds.

apprentice, lad, master

Nowadays:

theoretical knowledge school

practical training business entities
Practice-oriented

form of training: During the

three years of the theory and practice rate of
most profession is 30-70%

The study contract

The

student enters into a contract with the

business entity.
Is Countersigned by the regionally competent
Chamber.
Aim:
The business entity's involvement in practical
training
For students
providing life-like working conditions
the most modern technique, the cognition of technology
students can acquire tricks of the trade from professionals

Student benefits
Monthly

allowance paid under Student Contract

amount of the minimum wage (HUF 105,000 in
2015) to 15% from 0,7 to 1,3 and a number
ranging multiplied, depending on the
professional qualification and examination of the
theoretical and the share of practical training.
The scholarship is not taxable.
It must raise every six months.
Other benefits:
daily food allowance
work clothes
liability insurance.

Vocational school scholarship

students in the skills shortages
The county development and training commissions county at the
most 10 deficiency qualifications entitling for a training college
study scholarship in the given county are proposed.
Skills shortages students from over 2.51 grade point average and
maximum 10-hour unjustified omission longer entitled to vocational
school scholarships.
The scholarship is an independent assessment of the income
situation, the decision of the study results as follows:
4,51
4,01
3,51
3,01
2,51

5,0
4,5
4,0
3,5
3,0

30
25
20
15
10

000
000
000
000
000

HUF/month,
HUF/month,
HUF/month,
HUF/month,
HUF/month.

Level exam
9th grade
The commerce of chamber measure:
The student has mastered the necessary
practical knowledge
Date: from February to April.

State support for dual

training
1972
1988

Vocational Training Fund

National Employment Fund

Main

point: business organizations pay

a vocational training contribution, if
they do not train skilled workers
differentiated grant can be claimed
The average grant in 2014 was HUF 453,000 /
person / year.

Framework Curricula for

School Education

It is mandatory to incorporate it into the Professional

Plan, having regard to the rule of the so-called 10%
free lane.

Vocational School Framework; number of hours:

Areas
General
Subjects

Professional
Theory and
Practice

9th Grade

10th Grade

11th Grade

Directly provided
hours
Optional hours
(can be used
freely)

17

11

1,5

Total

18

11

9,5

Directly provided
hours

14,5

23

23

Optional hours
(can be used freely)

2,5

2,5

Total

17

25

25,5

35

36

35

Total Weekly Hours

Special vocational
school
According to the Law of National Education, the
Vocational School works as a special school for the
purpose of educating and training students with
special educational needs (SEN) when it prepares
students who cannot keep up with others for the
professional examination, or when it offers them
knowledge for transition for work or to the start to
life.
(E.g.: visually and hearing impaired persons, etc.)

The professional examination

system: a complex professional exam
A

complex professional exam is state exam,

complex, single measuring procedure which
must be passed before a selection board.
A professional and examination
requirements prescribed test tasks can be
done in four types of exam activities:
written
interactive (using computer)
Exam activities
practical
oral

The position of schoolleavers in Hungary

Based on Hungarian Chamber of Commerce for Economic and Enterprise
Research Institute of the entrant skilled workers in the labor market
situation in 2015.
GDP in 2014 grew by 3.5%, causing the employment rate for graduates
has been trained 65%
The average length of a job decreased, about 2-3 months in 2015
the mobility of young people in the right job came

63% other town in the country

64% abroad

further

Would like to move

on

education intentions: Technic and graduation not of higher

education (!)
Among the qualified graduates 19 months after finishing school the rate
of"leavers from their own professional is 55%
Therefore, school leavers from vocational education cannot be
considered as effective labor participant supply because of the
practice of further learning, retraining and professional
transition.

Thank you for your

attention.