Development of Vocational orientation in Hungary

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Development of Vocational orientation in Hungary
Workshops    3.1.      Service organisation,
Guidance, and Vocational Orientation for Young
People
Office National de lEmploi et des Affaires
Sociales PES- National Employment and Social
Office (NESO)
17. 18. April 2008 Internationale
Konferenz Professionalisierung beruflicher
Beratung Europäische Mobilität Chance und
Herausforderung
Tibor Bors Borbély borbelytibor_at_lab.hu ÁFSZ-
FSZH advisor
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Recent and not so new trends in Hungary

• No real owner of the Guidance issues (M. of
  Education and M. of Employment and Social Affairs
  have no long-term strategic agreement)
• Citizens have no clear view on Guidance (what is
  it for?) ? guidance, counselling, vocational
  orientation
• From the companies side the picture is the same
  (why is it important for us?) ? coaching
• Schooling system is a mess ? inequality
  inequity (too many and too early changes for the
  pupils)
• ?started in 1998 at the age of 18 schooling is
  compulsory (against youth unemployment as well)
• ?after 1998/99 3 ys. trade schools were abolished
  
• But there is still 4 ys. vocational training
  schools without GCSE

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Back to the 90s

• Acts on education contain guidance and
  orientation in every level (primary, 1993
  secondary 1993, Hi. Ed. 1993, and adult ed. 2002)
  
• Act on employment also manages this duty (1991,
  2000)
• BIZ were set up within the PES
• WB sponsored a career orientation BA curricula
  (Gödöllo)
• Job Clubs were launched in each county
• WB donated curricula on VET orientation in the
  vocational secondary schools
• First National Core Curriculum (NAT) 1995
  introduced the way-of-life and practical skills,
  vocational orientation was included !
• The Choices 96 and 2000 were adopted (Bridges CA)

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Choices 96 and 2000 (by PES)
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and afterward (almost) a total silence at the
policy level

• Small segmented developments
• SZFP Orientation curricula introduced in trade
  schools (2000) 74 classes per a school year
  (class 9)
• Career fairs hold by (County) Regional Labour
  Centres every year
• Orientation teacher (post-graduate degree 1999)
  (Gödöllo, Eger)
• School counsellor (post-graduate degree 90s) (U.
  of ELTE)
• Redesigned the counsellor psychologist curricula
  according the European Psychologist Degrees
• PHARE independent developments (PES, County
  Centres)
• www.epalya.hu
• www.palyainfo.hu
• www.palyatars.hu

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National developments
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Recent trends

• EU accession (May 2004) ?
• 1st. National Development Plan, Human Resources
  Development Operational Programme (HRDOP)
  2004-2008
• 2 new developments
• HRDOP 3.1. competence based cross- curriculum
  development for 66 ys. schooling career
  orientation competency is 1 out of the 6 areas
  (SuliNova-Educatio) (based on CA Blue Print/ Real
  Game)
• testing 300 schools and 1700 teachers, app.
  100.000 pupils
• HRDOP 1.2. BIZ type further developments (ÁFSZ-
  FSZH)

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Backgrounds /1 (by M. of Edu.)
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Near future 2007-2013/15

• Brand new programmes
• New Hungary Development Plan, Social Renewal
  Operational Programme, Measures
• 222 Central Programme for LLG (PES-NESO)
• 311 Programme for the 21th century schools (12
  classes compulsory education)

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Real problems
Percentage rate of inactive persons not in
education/on parental leave to the total
population aged 1529, 2004
H i g h e s t e d u c a t i o n a l a t t a i n
m e n t
Region
S e t t l e m e n t t y p e
Source CSO, Labour force survey time series,
2004. ( of NEET)
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Initiatives and obstacles

• March 27th - June 12th 2008 a new national policy
  paper have been developed for LLG policy in
  Hungary (according to the UNESCO, OECD,
  EU-CEDEFOP, Dublin Foundation papers between
  1998-2006)
• Two HRD ministries (ed. and empl.) seldom get
  synchrony
• Lack of political and social awareness on LLG
  issues (from the citizens, schools and employers
  side as well!) ? Talking about the learning
  society but do not really understand the small
  and necessary steps towards that.

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