Evaluating the election held on 6 April, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a student vocational skills competition award ceremony in Budapest that the Government had chosen the right path when it opted for a dual vocational training system based on the German model. "The really good news is that this path, this policy, is on a secure road in the future...we can carry on along this road for another four years," he said.
The Prime Minister said the Government was preparing to sign an agreement with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MKIK) on turning several tens of billions of forints towards developing the vocational education system during the 2014-2020 EU financial period.
The Prime Minister thanked the MKIK for its "consistent and committed" assistance to the Government in its efforts aimed at building a work-based economy, "restoring the reputation of physical work" and revamping vocational training.
The Government wants to make sure that vocational schools "increase the number of people who make a living from their own labour rather than boosting the number of people without jobs". Students of such institutions should be taught skills that actually help them to find employment later on, Prime Minister Orbán said.
Hungary's labour force is the country's main competitive advantage, the Prime Minister said, adding that highly skilled people were needed to meet the goal of making Hungary a production centre of Europe.
(Prime Minister’s Office)
