The Hungarian education system provided high-quality services during the coronavirus pandemic, on par with the leading countries of the world, according to the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2021 report, the human resources ministry said on Friday.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development published its report on the education system in member states on Thursday. The survey analyses the challenges and developments the sector faced until May this year. The ministry said Hungary sought to
curb the effects of the pandemic and to support lagging students by introducing digital equipment and content into the curriculum
and by ensuring tutoring for vulnerable students when in-person teaching became possible. The measures were similar to those undertaken in “the most developed countries of the world”, the ministry said.
The report also noted Hungary’s targeted aid for the sector, such as continuing to provide school meals at a discount or for free during the pandemic, and allowances for teachers working to prevent dropouts in disadvantaged regions, the ministry said.
Hungary was one of the 18 countries offering a targeted inoculation campaign for teachers, the ministry said.
The report showed that the number of people aged 18-24 without a job and not attending school has grown almost everywhere during the pandemic. In Hungary, that
growth was significantly smaller than the average,
the ministry said. While the ratio of young people without a job or school has grown to 16.1 percent form 14.4 percent in OECD countries, Hungary saw a growth from 14.5 percent to 15 percent, the ministry said.
The European Union cannot dictate how Hungarians should educate their children, according to EU treaties and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Thursday.
Varga said in a bilingual Facebook post that the European Commission launched an infringement procedure against Hungary in July. “They try to punish us only because we don’t let the LGBTQ lobby into Hungarian schools and kindergartens,” she said. Hungary sent its reply to the EC’s formal notice to Thierry Breton, the Commissioner for Internal Market, detailing the Hungarian government’s position on the infringement procedure and the “material and professional errors” in the EC’s formal notice, Varga said.
Hungary will protect its culture, national identity and the family values deeply connected with those values, she said. “This right is guaranteed by both EU and international law.”
“We keep ensuring that only parents can decide how to raise their own child.
No one can force them to let their child receiving sexual information without their approval or facing harmful content that is inappropriate for their age,” Varga said.
Sex education classes will be held by “by qualified personnel in the presence of a teacher,” she said.
“We reject categorically the assumption that the purpose of the law would be exclusion or discrimination,
it is only about the upbringing of Hungarian children and the protection of minors. The law does not interfere in the life of adults in any way, it does not violate the rights of sexual minorities in any way,” Varga said.
Hungary’s fundamental law prohibits discrimination and exclusion of minorities, and Hungarian laws “strictly punish” such actions, she said.
Monitoring hundreds of top management universities in the world, Financial Times found Budapest’s Corvinus university the 91st best globally. The British daily focusing on current business and economic affairs compares the different business schools every year and establishes its international ranking based on the results. Interestingly, Corvinus’s management program has been in the top 100 for 12 years consecutively.
According to novekedes.hu, the ranking shows that Corvinus University is an internationally competitive institution of the Hungarian higher education system. Rector Előd Takáts said that their ambitious aim is to train the business and social elite of Hungary and Central-Europe by 2030.
There are only five East-Central European programs that rank the world top 100. Among them, Corvinus’s Management and Leadership MSC is the only Hungarian one – he added. When the Financial Times ranked the programs based on their value-price rate, Corvinus became the 22nd. The British daily highlighted that all students could find a job only three months after their graduation.
Based on the university’s Graduate Tracking System, those who finish their studies at Management and Leadership earn an average of 628,000 HUF (1,794 Euros) per month with three years of experience. That sum is 11 pc higher than the average of those who do the same program at another university.
Furthermore, students of Corvinus University can increase the value of their diploma with a CEMS (The Global Alliance in Management Education) program. That lasts two semesters, including one semester spent abroad and an internship, as well. The program is only available at Corvinus University.
Moreover, the university renewed its Management and Leadership program. They would like to train those who would fill middle and senior management positions later.
Felvi.hu says that 496 students started the program in 2021 – portfolio.hu reported.
According to recent data, the delta variant of the novel coronavirus seems to have reached Europe and a new, fourth wave is impacting the continent. Unfortunately, the number of infections in Hungary also rose over the past few weeks. Some institutions are considering bringing back mandatory mask-wearing for their facilities.
According to the latest European Covid map updated on September 9, although Hungary is still green along with some other neighbouring countries, the capital has been changed to orange. This means that the number of infections between week 34 and 35 of 2021 have been between 75-200 per 100,000 population.
Source: ecdc.europa.eu
The latest Hungarian Covid data said that there were 345 new infections while this number was only 110 at the end of August. In our previous article, we have reported that according to János Szlávik, chief infectologist of the South Pest Hospital Center, the new variant of the coronavirus is much more dangerous for young people.
In contrast to the variants before, the delta already contaminates two days before the first symptoms appear. Just at the start of September, he already mentioned that mandatory mask-wearing might be reintroduced in Hungary.
Although schools and universities start their semester with normal, personal education, some of them have required students to have an immunity certificate if they want to move into the dorms. Others will adhere to stricter rules such as using thermometers at entry and the use of hand sanitisers.
According to the most recent information, the University of Pécs requires people attending most personal activities and certain areas of the facility to wear masks, Portfolio reports. The statement highlights that:
“The most important element of epidemiological control is vaccination and according to the current information […], a significant number of the citizens of the University of Pécs have the necessary immunity.”
But the university then recognises the dangers of the new delta variant and the moderate increase in the number of infections in Hungary, combined with their experience of the start of the economic year, the university rules mandatory mask use from September 13 in the following ways:
in the Clinical Centre in accordance with the relevant legal and internal regulations,
during attendance education sessions held indoors (e.g. lectures, seminars, practice), except for the person giving the lecture,
in the course of administration with a personal presence,
in addition to personal presence, during closed-space meetings and board meetings, provided that safe distancing and/or adequate ventilation of the room cannot be ensured.
If the number of infections continues to rise, it is likely that many other institutions will follow the practice of the University of Pécs, or it is not out of the picture that the Hungarian Government will make mask-wearing mandatory again.
Four US researchers are starting in Hungary in September under the arrangements of the 2021-2022 Budapest Fellowship Program set up jointly by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), Hungary Foundation, and the University of Public Service.
Hungary Foundation director Anna Smith Lacey told a press conference on Monday that the programme had been set up because the founders believe it is strategically important that those forming opinions about Hungary internationally should possess reliable information and knowledge. Many people form opinions abroad without local Hungarian knowledge and language skills, she added.
The four US researchers, Kelli Buzzard, Michael O’Shea, Michael van Ginkel and Tate Sanders, will focus on Hungarian history and culture, and they will also get an opportunity to publish their research results.
They will carry out their research at the MCC School of Social Sciences and History, at the Danube Institute, the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the University of Public Service.
The research areas include preserving Hungarian national sovereignty and cultural identity, economic cooperation between the Visegrad Group countries, the security environment of the Black Sea area and Russia’s role in the destabilisation of the western world.
The fellowship programme was launched last year for young US researchers interested in central and eastern Europe.
Hungarian women, just like all women in the past, have gone through difficulties and hardships to be allowed at universities.
On August 27, some Hungarian news sites, such as 24.hu and 444.hu, wrote about the obscene collection of 7 songs sent to the freshmen at the University of Veterinary Medicine. The sexualisation of women and the lyrics which mention sexual acts with animals were severely judged by the rector of the university, who banned the songs and ordered an ethical investigation. The President of the Student Government completely distanced themselves from the lyrics of the songs, which were never taken seriously, and were only a tradition in freshman camps. The songs are approximately 50 years old. He also said that they are banned now and will never be used again.
Little did these people know that women have come a long way, and they were allowed to be university students for the first time in Hungary circa 125 years ago.
And the path to higher education was indeed long and complicated. In 1777, Maria Theresa made education mandatory through the Ratio Educationis law. In the era, it seemed obvious that girls and boys have to learn different things, which was noticeable in II. Ratio Educationis of 1806. This document stated the importance of all-girl schools. Girls were taught the skills and knowledge necessary for being a good housewife. At this point, elementary schools were the same for boys and girls alike, as they studied in co-educated classrooms due to lack of space and teachers. Of course, teachers at the time could only be men. Girls were also educated in private institutions and church-run institutions where they learned about family life and some knowledge regarding humanities. The social status of students resulted in differences in the school curriculum.
In the second half of the 1800s, women were hired as secretaries, but they could also work at the Hungarian railways, post, or they could become elementary school teachers. In 1855, the first church-run elementary school teacher training institution opened, and the first state-run one opened in 1869. These were not considered higher education institutions, though.
In 1868, a law demanded the same curriculum to be taught to boys and girls alike. But even with this major change, even if girls could study further, their institutions were not regular high schools.
Also, girls could not get a graduation certificate (baccalaureate or A-levels, as we would call it these days). Finally, in 1895, girls could also take the graduation exams. Another important change happened in the 1840s when, due to the women’s movements that intensified in the era, Hungarian girls were able to start attending secondary schools and vocational training institutions.
Aristocrat Blanka Teleki expressed her views in the fierce temper of the revolution in 1848: “We were idolised puppets, let’s be human. The revolution demands people. Raise your daughters as human beings, not ephemeral beings to be married as soon as possible, as if the woman, like the butterfly, had reached its ultimate destination when the party [piece of clothing] was untied from her head.”
Blanka Teleki
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Léon Cogniet
The first Hungarian woman to get a university degree was Vilma Hugonnai, who graduated med school in 1879 from a university in Switzerland. Unfortunately, Hungary accepted her degree only in 1897.
This was two years after Gyula Wlassics, the minister of religion and public education, allowed women to study medicine, humanities, and pharmaceutical studies. The new order was accepted on 19 December 1895. In Kolozsvár, the first woman started her studies in higher education in 1897.
Vilma Hugonnai
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Schmidt Ede
Back then, it was still unusual for girls to study in a higher education institution, and many people pointed fingers at college girls.
However, the first lady to be admitted to a Hungarian university was Vilma Glücklich, who enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities of the then University of Budapest (Eötvös Loránd University today) where she studied Mathematics and Physics. The first woman to graduate from a Hungarian university was Sarolta Steinberger, an obstetrician-gynaecologist who graduated in 1900.
There was a time when aspiring female students could only apply to universities with the individual permission of the Minister of Culture, and from 1904, only women with outstanding results could apply. In 1927, more courses were made available for women, but they still could not study law and engineering.
The first Hungarian lawyer, Dr Margit Ungár, passed her bar exam with honours in June 1928. She was awarded her diploma in pink silk, tied with a golden ribbon, which was not the usual approach at the time. Women reached equality in university education as late as 1946.
The first Hungarian female veterinarian got her degree in 1937. Erzsébet Simonyi truly proved her skills to the world, becoming the first woman in the country to lead a research institution. From 1952 until 1971, she was the director of the Veterinary Vaccine Control Institute.
The first female veterinarian in the world was in fact an Irish woman named Aleen Cust. She finished her studies in 1900, but the chamber of veterinarians only accepted her as a member in 1919. In the United States of America, in 1939, there were 5,000 veterinarians, out of which 31 were women.
Hungarian higher education has reached an “epochal turning point” thanks to the new foundational model covering a wider range of institutions, László Palkovics, the minister of innovation and technology, said on Saturday.
Addressing a ceremonial senate meeting of the University of Szeged, in southern Hungary, Palkovics said universities that have opted in to the new foundational model would benefit in a multiplicity of ways thanks to their enhanced institutional autonomy and funding predictability.
He noted that 21 universities have opted in to the new model and 65 percent of student applications have been made to a university operating under the new system.
It is anticipated that seven out of ten students will study at such institutions, he added.
Palkovics said Hungary had never before spent as much on its universities as it did today. The government in 2022 will spend 1.7 percent of GDP on higher education as opposed to the EU average of 0.8 percent, he added.
Bids totalling HUF 2,700 billion (€ 7.8 billion) for developments submitted by the universities will be fully covered by the state’s coffers, the minister said.
Palkovics noted that this year 11 percent more people applied for a place in higher education than last year, while by 2020 the number of foreign students had grown by 65 percent from 2013.
Teachers in Hungary are likely to strike, and many of them expressed that they have a problem making ends meet.
In a previous article, Daily News Hungary wrote that the pay gap between foreign guest teachers and Hungarian teachers at the university level was tremendous.
Foreign guest teachers can get as much as 10,000 euros as a stipend at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, while younger educators under the age of 35 may get 5,000 euros. Free travel, health insurance, visa, accommodation, an office, participation at conferences abroad, and some money to spend are included in the stipend. For comparison, it is worth mentioning that Urkom Aleksander, an assistant professor at ELTE, disclosed the information that in Hungary, an assistant teacher with a PhD and obligations to do research and have publications earns as little as 542 euros a month at a university.
“I had to ask myself, why are most of my colleagues in a bad mood? Why are there any drop-outs at all when this [teaching] is already such a ‘glorified’ profession? And why does an assistant professor in Hungary have to take on 3 part-time jobs to be able to make a living at all? Do you think this is the shame of university lecturers or the shame of the country? University education should finally be appreciated!” – he wrote in a Facebook post.
But the stark reality is weighing on educators even more, as 97.4% expressed they have issues with making a living. Teachers’ salaries are low, and educators lose considerable amounts of money, 3-5 million forints (EUR 8,630 − 14,383) per year individually because their wage is set taking into account the minimum wage of the year 2014. Many teachers have a decent living only because their spouse or partner makes more money.
According to the research done by PDSZ, 3.6% is completely satisfied with the wage, 8.5% is rather satisfied with the wage, but 45.2% is completely unsatisfied, referenced portfolio.hu.
Due to the low pay, teaching is not an attractive career, and a shortage of educators willing to take these jobs is going to have a very serious negative impact on education in Hungary. There will not be enough teachers and too many unfilled empty positions in the field.
Someone in the survey wrote in her answer that her husband thinks that a teaching job is a “costly but beautiful hobby”, and other responses show that many teachers do not have the finances to sustain a healthy diet.
40% of respondents chose number 7 (completely true) about the statement that “I have difficulty managing the costs of a healthy diet.” In comparison, only 1.8%, 44 respondents, marked number 1. 54% of those who have children said that it was difficult to manage the finances of raising a child, completely agreeing with the statement, while 86.9% indicated that this statement was rather true.
The opposition Socialists have called on the government to prepare and submit to parliament an assessment of the experiences of digital education during the coronavirus pandemic, insisting that some 20 percent of children had had limited or no access to digital education.
István Hiller, the head of the party board, told an online press conference that smaller children learning basic skills had suffered most form the difficulties associated with digital education, and called for extra support for that age group and their teachers.
Hiller said
the opposition, once winning the election next spring, would raise the age limit for mandatory education to 18 years.
Since the incumbent government reduced it to 16 years, some 80,000 students have dropped out of school, he said. “They are the future fostered workers,” he said.
Should they come to power, the opposition will also tie the wages of teachers to the minimum wage to ensure regular raises, and introduce a 20,000 forint (EUR 57) school-starting allowance for families each September, the Socialist politician said.
Hiller also slammed the government’s decision to award plus points at university admissions for volunteer army service, adding that the opposition would return to reserving those points for academic achievement and social issues.
The government is spending more on higher education than ever before, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said at a ceremony at Budapest’s Obuda University marking the start of the academic year.
Spending on higher education has doubled compared with 2014, Varga said, noting that Hungary’s higher education budget has amounted to 1.2 percent of GDP compared with the European Union average of 0.8 percent.
Counting the country’s science parks, the Hungarian higher education sector will receive 960 billion forints (EUR 2.7bn) in funding next year, equivalent to 1.7 percent of GDP, the minister said.
The government will also provide Hungary’s higher education institutions with a combined 2,700 billion forints that they have requested for developments for the coming years, Varga said.
The leaders of a country have a duty to invest in knowledge, as this is in the country’s economic interest, he added.
Hungary’s government expects universities to play a key role in the country’s R+D activities and the area of innovation, and to move up the international rankings, Varga said.
The new operational model that sees universities shifting from being state-run to being operated by foundations serves to boost competitiveness, give them a more flexible operating environment and greater professional independence, he said.
Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga attended the inauguration ceremony of a new prep school for ethnic Hungarian children in northern Serbia’s Subotica (Szabadka) on Thursday.
“The future is built when a new school is completed, with a new community being born. Where a new community is born, the future is built on strong foundations,” Varga said in her address.
offering creche and kindergarten services to 100 ethnic Hungarian children,
was built with the Hungarian government’s assistance using a budget of 884 million forints (EUR 2.5m). “This programme, coupled with other economic and educational projects, is a joint achievement which will ensure that
15 million Hungarians can stay and prosper in their homeland,”
the minister said.
Istvan Pasztor, head of the ethnic Hungarian VMSZ party, spoke highly of the Hungarian government’s efforts to promote ethnic Hungarian communities, with special regard to its programme aimed at providing assistance to Hungarian kindergartens.
Participants of the Polish-Hungarian Summer University in Krasiczyn adopted a joint declaration on the future of Europe on Wednesday, urging a fundamental reform of the European Union.
In the declaration, they emphasised their sense of responsibility for their nations, the central European region and Europe as a whole, and underscored their commitment to Europe’s Christian roots.
The participants expressed their support for fundamental values such as the importance of the family, democracy, the protection of human dignity and the freedom of expression by law and the importance of social dialogue.
The participants called for a strong Europe and a fundamental reform of the EU, which they said should take into consideration the views of young people in central Europe.
The university students vowed to work together at political and civil forums for a “free, secure, strong and fair Europe” that is focused on recognising their own interests, values and problems instead of fuelling ideological polarisation and “waging a culture war”.
Prior to signing the declaration, the university students took part in a panel discussion on the future of Europe which was also addressed by Hungarian human resources ministry deputy state secretary Zsófia Rácz and former Polish house speaker Marek Kuchcinski.
Referring to recent criticisms levelled at Poland and Hungary in the EU, Rácz said the bloc had originally been established so that its member states could engage in sensible debates when they disagree rather than “attack each other”.
The five-day event, which opened on Monday, is focused on the future of Europe and is being attended by some 150 Polish and Hungarian students.
It is being organised by the Waclaw Felczak Institute of Polish-Hungarian Cooperation.
Since legislation paving the way for the university passed on June 15th, no work on the campus seems to have been done. As of today, both the university’s trust fund and its project company are yet to be established.
As shown by the demonstrations and campaigns earlier this year, many people are highly opposed to the idea of a Chinese university in Budapest. In early June, over ten thousand people protested against the construction of the campus. In another act of dissent, Budapest renamed a number of streets to further protest against the project,
including the perhaps now infamous “Free Hong Kong Road.”
It is unknown if this has anything to do with the apparent complete standstill of the project and the bureaucracy behind it.
A big part of why people were so against the otherwise good-ranking university was that it was set to be built on ground reserved for a “student town” dormitory project, which is planned to house many college students in Budapest. While the campus would, in fact, take up a large part of said landmass, there would be enough space left over for the construction of the student town. The decision to go through with the “lex Fudan” legislation despite the protests was also similarly controversial.
Other reasons include people fearing potential Chinese influence, as well as construction costs, which were estimated to be close to 1.3b€. The aforementioned legislation also states that the university’s yet-to-be-established foundation would receive state-owned real estate in the area for free.
The government is preparing for in-person education in the academic year starting on September 1, with a vaccination campaign for children over 12 to be held on Thursday, Friday, as well as next Monday and Tuesday, the minister for family affairs said on Tuesday.
Parents will have to declare whether they want their children vaccinated by Wednesday, she said.
School doctors and nurses will also be involved in the campaign, she added. So far, 5.7 million Hungarians have received the first and 5.5 million both coronavirus jabs, Novák noted. Some 187,000 have already registered for the booster shot, she added.
The government is launching a campaign to provide accurate information on the vaccine, Novák said, and called on politicians of all parties to encourage Hungarians to accept the vaccine.
The government is as yet “not considering further restrictions,” Novák said.
Schools will receive the government’s guidelines on pandemic protection, but will have the freedom to employ stricter methods and to quarantine individual classes if necessary, she added.
In September, education will start in the traditional way at Hungarian universities, all of which are prepared with different educational solutions if the fourth wave of the pandemic occurs in Hungary.
In order to avoid unexpected situations caused by the pandemic, the universities of Szeged and Pécs have prepared for the autumn semester with different learning strategies,
including presential, hybrid and online educational solutions.
According to the Director of the University of Szeged, from September, all these learning strategies can be implemented and switched on immediately if the Covid situation gets worse in Hungary.
Some universities in the Hungarian capital are still cautious. As the Hungarian news portal hvg reports, Eötvös Loránd University and Pázmány Péter Catholic University also provide the opportunity to hold their courses online for certain reasons (e.g., in case of health complaints).
some Budapest universities are preparing to hold the lectures online above a certain number of people.
Budapest Business School will apply this online solution in the case of courses attended by more than 50 students. In contrast, at Corvinus University, Hungarian classes above 150 students and English courses above 60 students will be held online from September.
As RTL news reports, hygiene points and continuous hand disinfection will be provided in every institution.
Although the use of masks is not compulsory in the case of presential classes, students are allowed to wear a mask if they decide so.
Five Hungarian universities have been added to the latest list of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) and the University of Szeged are considered to be the best this year.
The creators of the ARWU ranking categorised the included Hungarian universities in the following groups: Eötvös Loránd University ranked 601-700, the University of Szeged ranked 601-700, Semmelweis University ranked 701-800, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics ranked 801-900, and the University of Debrecen ranked 901-1000.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was published in 2003 by Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. The survey has been conducted since 2009 by an independent organisation, ShanghaiRanking.
When compiling the list, experts examined the scientific work of nearly three thousand higher education institutions.
According to Eduline, the institutions were assessed for the ranking on the basis of six indicators, including the professional recognition of lecturers, researchers, and former students, publications, citations of research papers, and per capita academic performance.
Which are the best universities in the world?
Harvard has been in the first place for 18 years, followed by Stanford and Cambridge. The top 10 includes mostly US-based universities.
The best European university is Paris-Saclay University, in 13th place.
From the Central European region, the University of Vienna ranked 151-200, while the Austrian Medical University is listed in 201-300th place. Three Croatian universities are also on the list, the best of which is the University of Zagreb in 600-701th place. From the Polish universities, the Jagiellonian University became the best (401-500), while the Charles University of Prague (201-300) is the best from the Czech Republic. Two Romanian universities were also added to the list.
The rankers examine specialities separately. Hungarian universities were also excellent in this aspect – check it out below.
The pandemic brought numerous challenges both for students and their parents, and for market actors in the education sector. Only companies who could adapt to the constantly changing circumstances were able to continue developing. One such company is the largest international programming school network, the Hungarian-founded Logiscool. The company not only managed to stay stable during the pandemic, but even strengthened its position: it has been present in Nigeria since July, and in South Africa since the spring.
Afterschool classes have been experiencing an ever greater priority over the past decades. Statistics show that one in every four U.S. primary schoolers participates in some type of extracurricular activity. The same tendency can be observed in other parts of the world as well, drawing the attention of investors and entrepreneurs.
From an investment standpoint, the size of the market, the innovation opportunities and the steady demand provide secure foundations. The economic effects of the pandemic, however, have greatly rearranged the landscape:
2020 and 20201 became the years of virtual learning trends.
Not every company providing extracurricular activities was able to adapt to the changing educational environment. School models based on franchise foundations were the quickest to react. The strength of such models is based on the fact that owners are closely connected to their communities, and are therefore able to efficiently adapt to changing market demands.
This is how the Hungarian-founded Logiscool network was able to completely restructure its entire product portfolio, teaching kids & teens coding and digital literacy, within a few months, and expand with new partners despite the pandemic.
One important strategic change in the product portfolio was the introduction of workshops,
“miniature courses” that only last a few weeks.
Their purpose is to give students a glimpse into a subject (or several) they’re interested in, and which they can later explore in greater detail at courses or camps, should they decide to do so. Additionally, registration periods were also expanded; and programs are available both on- and offline since 2020. This complex business transformation was necessary because it gives the target group, parents and children, the greatest possible security in the current uncertain situation.
“The franchise system enabled us to rapidly react to changes both in Hungary and on an international level.
This is also very attractive to those seeking investment opportunities: more and more people are recognizing the advantages of the education market” – points out Gyula Csitári, one of Logiscool’s founders. “We’re currently present in 21 countries. We have even managed to spread our school network to a new continent over the last couple of months, and now children in the Republic of South Africa and Nigeria are able to study coding and digital literacy with our method in Logiscool schools. This is a giant step, since very few Hungarian education franchises have managed to secure a foothold on the African continent so far.”
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The government is ready to mitigate “the damage students suffered during the coronavirus epidemic due to a lack of classroom education”, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said in a video posted on an opposition Socialist MEP’s Facebook page on Tuesday.
Gergely Gulyás said that MEP István Újhelyi and trade unions had requested talks on the impacts of Covid on education, which were held on Monday afternoon.
“It is a shared responsibility and a shared goal, irrespective of political considerations, that (classroom) education should restart and
the harm caused by a lack of personal education should be reduced to a minimum,”
Gulyás said. Hungary has sufficient stocks of the coronavirus vaccine and “there is nothing against” starting the academic year in the classroom in September, he added.
The talks were attended by representatives of trade unions PSZ and PDSZ, as well as UNICEF Hungary.
Újhelyi told MTI that he had worked with experts on the field to develop the proposals they discussed with Gulyás, including comprehensive research of the mental effects of the pandemic on children, as well as a review of the school psychologist network nationwide.
