Abstract:

The vocational education in Hungary has undergone a major transformation in recent years. The main objective of the transformation of the vocational education system was to ensure that vocational education and adult education provide flexible and high quality education and training in response to the demands of accelerated technological development and the rapidly changing market and labour market environment. It is well known that well-trained professionals have a higher social prestige and higher financial reward. The government also aimed to motivate and interest enterprises as potential dual training providers to employ students and to cooperate as closely as possible with educational institutions. While these are working in the case of full-time education, there are problems in the case of adult education. Learning while working is a major challenge for those who wish to learn, and this creates serious difficulties, particularly in the practical area of training. In this paper, we discuss official statistics in the field, the VET 4.0 strategy and our own empirical experience with training. In the case of adult education, the preparation for the basic sectoral examination is already a problem, as they have much fewer hours of practical training than in full-time education, which is often delivered in blocks. In addition to the difficulty of finding a suitable placement in adult education, it is also often difficult to arrange placements with the current employer. The number of placements is limited and the system is only partially flexible. We also suggest ways to change the training.

Keywords:

Adult education, vocational education, VET 4.0 strategy.