Government Overhauls Teacher Continuing Education, Cuts Centralized Courses and NAT Exams
The government announced a revamp of teacher continuing-education, abolishing content-renewal courses and ending the mandatory NAT exam for trainees.
A government decree will restructure the system for teachers’ further training, as published on kormany.hu. It scraps the “content-renewal” courses that were centrally organised by the Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem, allowing those programmes to be chosen freely after the Education and Child Care Ministry reviews their content; the removal of rural-hosted sessions will also lower costs. From now on, trainee teachers are exempt from the compulsory National Core Curriculum (NAT) exam.
Educational institutions are permitted to run their own internal courses, which can be quickly tailored to local needs and will receive normative funding proportional to teacher numbers. The plan foresees a second stage that will rebuild market-oriented, freely selectable courses and incorporate vocational-training and nursery-care workers. The ministry announced a social dialogue to gather opinions from public schools, school owners, teachers’ unions, universities and other stakeholders.
Why it matters
The reforms will reshape how Hungarian teachers receive training, affecting qualification standards and school funding.
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