Educational Policy Concept For the City of Miskolc (Hungary)
Feb 02, 2016
Educational Policy Concept
For the City of Miskolc
(Hungary)
Location
Hungary
Miskolc
EUROPE
H i s t o r y of City
13 th century : King’s Castle
In the medieval : commercial and agricultural centre
19 th century : industrial booming
1950’s : Miskolc City Centre of heavy industry
1990’s: 30.000 employees , Great housing estates 36.000 flats
The Hungarian educational system at a glance
Grading Scale
Higher Education
• Nursery school (kindergartens) pre-school programmes
• General (os basic) school (általános iskola)
• General secondary school (gimnázium)
• Vocational secondary school (szakközépiskola
• Vocational school (szakiskola)
• Special short-term vocational school (speciális szakiskola)
The regular public educational system
Pre-primary education (pre-school system) - is well developed
Age: From 3 to 7 years
Duration: Average 3 years
Description: The aim is to prepare children for social life and for schooling, to develop personal skills and abilities. Attandence is compulsory from the age of 5.
Timetable: Activities take a max.of 4 hours a day.
School year and holidays: Lasts from 1,Sept until the end of June. Christmas, Easter
Subjects: Activities aim: to develop different forms of communication, to improve the use of the mother tongue. (core and own educational program)
Exams: No
Early childhood education
Duration: 8 years in general( can be 4 or 6 years)
Description: provide basic knowledge and skills
Timetable: The school year consists of 172days Day ily teaching hoursare 4 to 6 + non. Compulsory activities
Subjects: Three level structure (National Core Curriculum, Frame Curricula, local curricula) Obligatory subjects: Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Literature, Grammar, Physical Education, Music, History, Foreign Languages
Starts at the age of 6 or 7
Age: 10-18, 12-18 or 14-18
Duration: 8, 6 or 4 years
Exams: entrance examination School leaving examination
Upper secondary education
Age: from 14 to 18/ 21
Duration: 4-6/7 years
Description: provide general upper secondary and vocational education.
Subjects: National Register of Qualifications
Exams: entrance examination, school leaving examination, vocational school leaving examination
Vocational training
• The central budget
• The budgets of the local government
• The budgets of the extra-budgetary funds• Funds from outside the general government system (vocational training)
Multi- channel financing system
Funds spent on school based training
S c h o o l a g e
Age 4-5 6-12 13-14 15-16 17-18 19-21 22-23 24-KindergartenPrimary schoolSec. SchoolCollageUniversityAdult educat.
Institutions (Maintained by)
Types Local Government Institutions Students
Churches /others Institutions Students
Kindergarten 42 5294 5 268 Primary School 34 11599 6 1822 Grammar 5 3635 6 2267 Vocational 15 10356 3 1348 Industrial 6 3342 3 1344 Special technic. 1 338
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Sum : 103 34564 23 7049
The most important professions
Mechanics (turner,repairman,..)
Information technology
Human (health care, dental technician)
Transport ( car electronic, mechanic,..)
Economics
Commerce and catering
Arts (goldsmith, potter, graphic,..)
Services ( hairdresser, ..)
Adult education
P rimary s chool Secondary s chool B eyond the s chools ys tem
P os s ibility
Reanson:* young adults want to learn ,* unemployement ,
* the importance of re-training.
Forms: face to face
evening
distant courses
The aims of adult education areThe aims of adult education are
• to ensure more possibilites• to enable to cope with the development of
economics, culture and technology• to raise the chances of keeping jobs and finding
new ones• to ensure the feeling of success• to raise living standard
• to help participants find their own places in the international and global world of work
The main fields of in-service trainings
• information technology
• linguistic preparations
• mentalhygiene
• educational metods of young
• dealing with pupils in special needs
• Self-development for teachers
We are proud of the facts
• Each and every headteacher took part in a training on school-management
• we have trained nursery school teachers to prevent dyslexia
• some teachers have become experts on menthal hygienic problems
• offered English and German courses
• 80 % of our teachers have taken part in different accredited courses
Good - bye in Miskolc !