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 !