16 - Hungary - Educational/vocational guidance, education/employment links
Educational/Vocational Guidance, Education/Employment Links
The
Ministry of Education and Culture issues several publications each year
to supply young persons who wish to apply for admission with the
necessary information.
One of them is the "
Tertiary education admissions information booklet"(on
courses announced in the individual institutions, limits of admissible
student numbers, details of the admissions procedure), and the other is
titled " What does Hungarian tertiary education offer", and also Felvi magazine.The
former is a description of each institution with their characteristic
features. There is another publication for applications for doctoral
training (Doctoral admissions booklet, PhD, and DLA training).
The full content of the publication has to be made
public and accessible for everyone on the official web site of the
Ministry of Education and Culture according to the governmental decree
on admission proceedings.
The National Higher Education
Information Centre provides future students of tertiary education with
career counselling and information system.
Tertiary institutions
have an open day before the entrance procedure, and may publish
leaflets about their institutions and choice of courses.
The government decree on the introduction of the credit based system
(government
decree 200 of 2000 on the Introduction of the point system in education
(credit system) and the uniform filing of credit systems of
institutions)prescribes that each institution of tertiary
education must prepare an Information booklet (both its structure and
content based on the guidelines in the information package of the ECTS
Users Manual). That Information booklet shall be posted on the
institution’s website.
First year students are given a copy of the
institution’s Regulation of studies and examinations (that also
satisfies the requirements regarding the institution’s credit
regulations) along with all other important regulations. The programmes
of subjects of the courses and their requirements are entered in the
students’ information system, so that students can access all essential
information before a computer screen.
The Act on Higher
Education requires that all information and services that can help
students integrate in the academic community, lead a healthy lifestyle,
and access medical services must be made available to them.
Institutions of tertiary education may hire other organisations to
ensure that information or services.
Institutions have a formal
structure of student counselling. That may assume a number of forms.
Tutors (teachers, students of higher grades) may guide the students.
There may be a separate student counselling office that is structurally
separate, but it can also be part of a career consulting office.
The
2005 Act on Public Education made the career monitoring on tertiary
institutions a task of tertiary institutions. Some institutions conduct
more detailed surveys concerning the post-institution career of their
graduates, and publish summaries of such surveys in different
publications of the institution. An increasing number of institutions
of tertiary education stage annual vacancy displays attended by
representatives of companies, and provide information on vacancies, the
specific jobs to be done by young school leavers, and career
opportunities within a company.
The Ministry of Education and Culture (
Oktatási és Kulturális Minisztérium)
has been carrying out surveys in some institutions concerning the
initial years of their graduates in the labour market (career
monitoring). Apart from a great deal of other information those surveys
also contain details on the job opportunities of the graduates of those
institutions, the ratio of unemployed persons among them, and salaries
initially and after a few years. The core statistics of that survey is
available to youth in the information booklet published by the
institutions of tertiary education.
To ensure establishment and development of relations
among the institutions on the one hand, and economic, and social
organisations on the other, the organisation of the institution may
include an advisory body consisting of representatives of the social
and economic sector, and of outside economic experts. Particularly good
relationships have evolved between institutions of tertiary education
providing more practice oriented training (technical, economic
sciences) and economic organisations. With these organisations it has
become habitual that representatives of industry play a part in the
training process, sit on the final examination committee, and propose
subjects for scientific projects, and theses useful for the given
company. Activities, or research related to these subjects may be done
on the premises of the company, for which even financial support is
provided, and as company representatives become better acquainted with
the students, the former will select their new workforce from among
them.
In the framework of multi-cycle training system at the
elaboration of educational programmes and output requirements of the
faculty system and in training development, it is an important
criterion to continuously monitor and discuss at professional meetings
the demands of labour market that may ensure the employment of
graduates.
The 2005 Act on Higher Education specifies that every
tertiary institution has to make public and put on the web site the
educational, developmental and innovative activities, research,the
major fields of specialisation and actual achievements at latest 90
days after the end of academic year.
Eurydice - the information network on education in Europe
Date: 2009
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