Hungarian Pedagogical Society, Division for Career Education hosted a workshop in Budapest for Finnish school/ guidance counsellors in early April 2017.
Career guidance & education policy & practice in Hungary 2017 - issues
1. Career guidance / career education
in Hungary in a nutshell
Policy and practice
Dr. Tibor Bors Borbély-Pecze,
Hungarian Pedagogical Society
Division for Career Education
Budapest, 7th of April 2017
2. Policy
• Gov. Decrees from the 60’s, 70’s (1029/1961; 1971)
• Political changes 1989-90: two legs strategy
EDUCATION
• NCCs: 1995, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2017/18(?)
EMPLOYMENT & SOCIAL INCLUSION
• 1991 Empl. Act
• 1993 Social Inc. Act
• 2011: Government’s county and district offices
4. Policy /2 - issues
• central planning of the VET vs. free market
• structure of the school system
• vocational orientation vs. Career education
• skills and attitudes of the teachers and school
/school district management & and the end-
users (citizens)
• time for implementation (4 NCC within 20
years!)
5. Practice
• 1990’s new degrees for CG. at both branches:
psychology and pedagogy, strong link with soc.
Incl. (social teacher): German, Canadian, Finnish
influences (not really French)
• 2006 Bologna Sys. 1.0. in HU: BA and MA, PhD.
programmes – too strong links with Andragogy
much less with Pedagogy
• 2016/? .. No BA, mixed MAs (Psy.,Ped.) standing
postgraduate specialist training courses
6. Practice 2/ issues
• NO national strategy for CG/LLG sys.
development
• Contradict/ missing pathways of the citizens-
within sectoral CG practices (e.g. role of PES,
new NCC, structure of the school system, role
and structure of VET or HE)
• Ad hoc changes in sectoral policies
• Deskilling strategies