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Graduate Carreer Follow Up System in Hungary
Zsuzsanna Veroszta PhDEducatio Public Services Non-profit LLC
Overview
The environmentInstitutional frameworksHigher education and labour market changes in Hungary
Challenges/objectivesInstitutional implementationResearch programInternational cooperationEvidence based educational policy
Elements of the systemCountry-wide sample surveysIntegration of public agency databases Institution-based surveys
Institution-based surveysTasks of correspondentsMethodologyQuestionnaire
Istitutional frameworks
Financial resourchesEuropean Union - Social Renewal Operative Programme 4.1.3.
Official background Ministry of National Resources
Professional and methodological centerEducatio Public Services Nonprofit LLC
Data collection and implementation level Higher education institutions (significant financial support)
Environment
Massification of Higher Education
Institutional diversification
New patterns of education, LLL, Bologna
Rapid changes in environment, labour market
Changing expectations, transmission period
Objectives
Educational research programHigher Education as an investmentSubjective aspects of professional success
Beliefs about young graduates – validationGraduate unemploymentCarreer changeOvereducation
Institutional feedback – improvement
Evidence based educational policy (Data based information management system) (reward or punishment?)
Elements of the system
3 data sourches:
1. Country-wide sample surveys• Foundation to the institutional surveys (non-regular)• Face to face interviews on representative samples• Among full-time students (2009) and graduates (2010)
2. Integration of public agency databases• Integration of official databases: first attempt in Hungary• includes (theoretically) the whole population of graduates in 2010 (~50.000) • One year after graduation (transmission period)• connecting data at personal level (not identified)• Databases:
- Education Office: socio-demographic and study data - tax office: income, profession - health care data: profession, employer - employment register: unemployment rate
• Lack of subjective components
3. Regular Institution-based surveys
Institution-based surveys
Tasks of correspondents• institutes:
- establish or improve graduate tracking system, adapt to national system - surveys, institutional background, external and internal communication
• methodolgical centre (Educatio): - Support HEI projects - provide the standard of tracking systems, helpdesk,
conferences, handbooks - Central services: national surveys, database building, research, communication (web), administration
Methodology• Centralized standards• On-line data collection at institutional level (e-mail from administration system)• Population: students (all) and graduates 1, 3, 5 years after graduation – every spring
Questionnaire• core questionnaire completed with specific institutional questions• open/closed questions • international standards for comparability
Research areas
Questions related to workplace and labour market position
Professional success
Professional satisfaction
Vertical and horizontal matching of study and work
Transition period – from school to work
Life long learning tendencies, learning patterns and plans
Socio-demographic background
International mobility (both working and learning)
Results of the first years
Researches among students and graduates on representative samples
Integration with official databases
2010 and 2011: data collection of 30 higher education institutes• National database 2010: 20.000 graduates of 2007, 2009• National database 2011: under construction
First results about the success of young BSc graduates
Presentations, research papers, publications
Trainings, workshops, conferences
Website: www.diplomantul.hu