1. Project 2007-2009 Villeneuve-sur-Lot - Kőszeg Parádi Vanda Déri Mónika

2. Hungarian Educational System

3. Pre-primary education  Nursery school (0-3 yrs)  Kindergarten (3-6/7 yrs) -One compulsory year

4. Compulsory schooling (7-18 yrs)  Language: Hungarian or bilingual (English, German or minority languages)  Special schools for mentally handicapped  Integrated education  Public and private schools

5.  Schoolyear: from September to June  Autumn, winter and spring holiday  Five working days, 4-8 lessons per day  45-minute classes, 10-20 minute breaks

6.  A level can be repeated at any grade except for the first of elementary school  Free school choice

7. Primary schools (7-14 yrs) Junior section (7-10 yrs)  1st-3rd grade: only written analysis  above: 1-5 numeric scale  basic skills Senior section (11-14 yrs)  Hungarian, foreign language, History, Maths, Science…

8. Secondary education (14-18/19/20 yrs) Grammar schools  give general knowledge  usually have a subject speciality  4 or 5 years Special: 6- or 8-year grammar schools

9. Vocational training schools  4 years  Vocational secondary school certificate  Opportunity to continue studies at university

10. Apprenticeship schools  3-year training programs  Skilled worker certificate  Students go directly to employment  They may attend college after an additional secondary school program

11. Érettségi – final exam  Two-tier system: mid- and upper-level  Oral and written  Taking some subjects earlier is possible  Compulsory: Hungarian grammar and literature, Maths, History, one foreign language, another chosen subject

12. Higher education  Complicated enrollment point-system  Colleges and universities  Credit system  three-tier education: BA or BSc, Ma or MSc, Ph. D.  Adult training

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