Contents

• Foreword
  This is the second time we have published a report on the current situation in Hungarian school education...
• Chapter A
  The economic and social environment of education
  The Republic of Hungary is situated in Central Europe, with a population (1996) of 10,212,000. Its territory covers 93,000 square kilometres, which is about one per cent of Europe. 12.6% of the population live in towns, and 18.7% in the capital city of Budapest...
• Chapter B
  Educational policy, the administration and financing of education
  Hungarian school education at the beginning of the 1990s could be described as having two main features: crisis and adaptation. Nowadays we have to add a third one: stabilisation...
• Chapter C
  The education system, progress within the system
  Compulsory schooling in Hungary lasts from 6 to 16 years of age. (The legal regulations allow for the differentiated beginning of school between ages 5 and 7)...
• Chapter D
  Curricula, examinations, and student attainment
  The Hungarian Parliament adopted the National Core Curriculum (NCC) in autumn 1995, which marked the introduction of a new system of educational content regulation. The implementation of the NCC, however, is taking place gradually and will take several years...
• Chapter E
  School personnel and the system of auxiliary educational services
  The number of people employed in public education in Hungary is very high by international comparison. According to the data of a 1995 survey the number of people employed in public education in Hungary amounted to 8.6% of the whole labour force while the respective OECD average was 5.4%...
• Chapter F
  The strengths and weaknesses of the system
  The Hungarian education system is undergoing a large-scale transformation. The changes have brought about a lot of good and innovative developments but there are also a lot of problems to tackle...
• References
• Figures and Tables
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