József Temesi , Corvinus University of Budapest

1. Towards a Qualifications Framework in Hungarian Higher EducationDesigning Learning Outcomes for the New Bachelor and Master Programmes József Temesi, Corvinus University of Budapest Accreditation and Assessment in Irish Higher Education – The Emerging Scenario National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 25th and 26th January 2007

2. Project approach TUNING philosophy Participation of HE experts and employers Learning outcomes Contribution to the Hungarian Bologna-process starting in September 2006 Analysis of the existing Bachelor programmes Focus is on the development of new Master programmes

3. Aims To provide technical assistance in order to produce new qualification descriptions that are justified both form an academic point of view and by potential employers in the given field • Start: March, 2006 • Three phases: • March-April: Conceptual background, establishing a unified approach • April-May: Workshops in six areas • June-July: Summary of results, recommendations Project organization Steering Group Working groups (subject areas)

4. Higher Education Act in Hungary: „training and qualification requirements” for every degree programme in collaboration with the Hungarian Accreditation Board and the Ministry of Education. Our approach was to create a balance between the academic and labour market requirements, and between the input and output (curriculum-oriented and learning outcome-oriented) elements. The major goal was to concentrate on a competence-based description of the training and qualification requirements. • Background materials: • international project descriptions and results, • national and foreign descriptions by subject areas, • recommendations and considerations from the labour market team members

5. As a result of the project • The professional level of qualification descriptions will improve and requirements will move towards practical realization • The recommendations from different study fields for qualification descriptions expressed in learning outcomes and competencies will take into account progression from Bachelor to Master cycle in a consistent way • The involvement of the labour market representatives will ensure sound application of the output based approaches • A core group will develop that will be able to contribute to designing qualification descriptors as future advisors in Hungary • Guidelines, manuals, technical descriptors will be designed, which will help for curriculum design and planning, in the various institutions

6. Hierarchy of requirements Level description (Bachelor, Master): amendment to the Higher Education Law Subject area description:general professional competencies for a particular subject areas (e.g. engineering, business) Programme description:specific competencies for a particular programme (e.g. mechanical engineering, marketing) Training and qualification description: Competencies + knowledge areas

7. Designing process Competencies and learning outcomes general programme subject area Assigning to knowledge areas Composition of knowledge areas in a curriculum (in credits) Programme accreditation Institutional curriculum Qualified personnel Infrastructure guarantee for a quality output Launching a programme

8. Project outcome: • methodology papers, guidebooks, sample descriptions • studies on labour market requirements • recommendations • trained experts Recommendations: • for the Ministry of Education: structure and content of the legal regulation • for the Hungarian Accreditation Board: subject area and programme descriptors • for the institutions: competence-based curricula