1. The balance of vocational training, employment and demographics
“WORK-LIFE BALANCE – IN ALL AGES”
Ildikó Modla-Görgényi
17th November, 2016

2. Influencing factors for running a balanced family life:
selection of appropriate vocational training
selection of personally ideal job and its reconciliation with private life
demographic goals within the family

3. To reconcile vocational training, employment and demographics and family life:
Analysis
Development
Transformation, modification
Reforms
Reconciliation

4. Employment, labour market

5. Industrial production and sales (100% = same period of last year)
Exports
Inland sales

6. Unemployment rate (within 15-74 ys population)

7. Employment rate: 64,8 %
1st Q of 2015

8. Employment in Hungary – past present and forecast (EUROSTAT)

9. Serving the demand of the economy: training focus on skilled workmen and technicians
Strengthening the dual training: extending the number of training sites and specializations, increasing involvement of students
Quality improvement of the vocational training: upgrading the quality, the effectiveness of the training

10. In 2015 GDP growth in Hungary was 2.9 %
In 2015 Industrial production growth was
9.4%

11. Characteristics of the Hungarian labor market:
Imbalance of labor demand and supply
Unemployment
Shortage of workforce
Causes of problems:
Territorial differences
Differences in the fields of professional specialistaions
Quality of training
Lack of practical experiences

12. Demographic context

13. .
Men
Women

14. Since 1990 the number of students entering secondary education has decreased by 50,000
The decrease in the in headcount has not been balanced: the biggest fall effected the vocational training
Analysis shows that students with lower educational performance tended to orient themselves towards vocational training

15. School-age population between 2008-2015 Southern Transdanubia.
School-age population between
Central Transdanubia
Western Transdanubia
Southern Transdanubia
Northern Hungary
Northern
Great Plain
Southern
Great Plain
Central Hungary

16. 1990
2010
2014
2015
Nr. of births
125 679
90 335
91 510
91 700

17. Development of vocational training

18. 2014-2015: educational conceptions and strategies with situational assessment:
Vocational training serving the interest of the economy
Development strategy for primary education
Mid-term strategy against leaving school without finished education
Life-long learning policy framework strategy
Scale changes in higher education

19. Aims of vocational training: Providing skilled workmen
Providing educated workforce for Hungary

20. New educational structure in vocational schools from September Vocational school: 3+2 ys + opportunity to pass final exam Specialized secondary school: 4+1 year; school leaving exam + partial or full-professional certificate within the school leaving exam Register of professional certifications for specialized secondary schools has been set up for those starting secondary education from 2016/2017

21. Pre-school training Primary education Secondary education
Vocational training
Higher education
adult education
Secondary school 7-12 grade
Secondary school 5-12 grade
Secondary school 9-12 grade
Specialised secondary school 9-12 grade
BSc.
Kindergarten
Vocational school
9-11 grade
Primary school
1-8 grade
1-4 grade
1-6 grade
MSc.
Bridge-Program

22. From the second school year in vocational secondary school
Scholarship system to motivate participation in education in skill-shortage stricken specializations
Scholarship in the first training year in specialized secondary school and vocational secondary school: HUF (appr. 30 EUR)
From the second school year in vocational secondary school
10000 Ft HUF (appr EUR) from an average educational performance of 2,51.
From the second year in Specialized secondary school
20 000 HUF - 50 000 HUF (appr EUR) from an average educational performance of 3,01
Scholarships are higher for specialized secondary school students because there is severe shortage of technicians on the labor market.

23. Conceptional changes in the subject structure
New subject: natural sciences in a complex approach
Geography, Physics, Biology, Chemistry

24. The consolidation of dual training:
Declining demographics
Proportionally growing number of students
Plus 5000 students, in total 53,000 students.
Second professional certificate can be obtained free of charge
Age limit for free education has been raised to 25 ys of age

25. National co-ordination in vocational training according to the demand of economic players
County-level development and training committees from 2012
Separate handling of enrollment headcount limits for vocational training and adult education from 2017/2018 laid down in the respective gov. decree for structures of professions.
From 2017/2018 enrollment headcount limits will be introduced for trainings aiming at passing the school leaving exam.

26. 15-74 ys population in 2015
15-74 ys population in 2005
In employment 35%
In employment 33%
Economically active 37%
Economically active 35%
Unemployed 3%
Unemployed 3%

28. Vocational training centres as educational and service centres
354 training institutions
Focuses:
IT knowledge
Foreign languages
Career counselling

29. RIGA DECLARATION OF 2015 SETTING TARGETS UNTIL 2020
Promote work-based learning in all its forms.
Further development in training systems for I-VET and C-VET.
Enhance access to VET and qualifications for all through more flexible and permeable systems.
Further strengthen key competences in VET curricula and provide more effective opportunities to acquire or develop those skills.
Introduce systematic approaches to, and opportunities for, initial and continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in both school and work based settings.

30. Contact Ms. Ildikó Modláné Görgényi
Expert for Vocational Education and Adult Education
Ex-Deputy Director General of the Hungarian Labor Inspectorate
Association for Women’s Career Development in Hungary
Organization in Special Consultative Status
with the UN Economic and Social Council
1118 Budapest, Ugron Gábor u. 28.
Hungary
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