Hungary

  • András Buda
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Abstract

The substantial transformation in Hungarian public education that began in the 1990s has been ongoing ever since. The process was triggered by the change of political regime that followed the demise of the USSR and was further precipitated by demographic decrease, economic recession, and the resulting high levels of youth unemployment (Csapó 2002; Halász and Lannert 2006; Kozma 2003). The situation was also exacerbated by the simultaneity of these effects, a situation that was not the case for some other—mainly Western European—countries, where the impacts were more evenly distributed over a longer period of time.

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National Curriculum Science Subject Vocational School Oral Examination Grammar School 
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