Educational Policy Concept

1. Educational Policy Concept For the City of Miskolc (Hungary)

2. Location EUROPE Miskolc Hungary

4. 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 H i s t o r y of City

5. The Hungarian educational system at a glance

6. Grading Scale

7. Higher Education

8. The regular public educational system • 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)

9. Early childhood education 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

10. Starts at the age of 6 or 7 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

11. Upper secondary education Age: 10-18, 12-18 or 14-18 Duration: 8, 6 or 4 years Exams: entrance examination School leaving examination

12. Vocational training 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

13. Funds spent on school based training Multi- channel financing system • 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)

14. S c h o o l a g e Schoolage: 5 - 18

15. Institutions (Maintained by)

16. 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, ..)

17. Adult education Forms: face to face evening distant courses • Reanson: • young adults want to learn , • unemployement , • the importance of re-training.

18. The 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Good - bye in Miskolc !