Hungary

Last update: July, 2016

The training of artists and musicians in Hungary is available at elementary, secondary and tertiary level schools. There are currently (2012) 739 institutions of basic education in art and music, with 2 553 affiliates. Some eight and a half thousand teachers train about 245 000 pupils (two-thirds of whom are in the field of music). At the secondary level there are about 30 000 enrolled pupils.

Arts education in public schools receives an annual subsidy from the central budget. For the academic year 2011/12, basic arts educational institutions received 21 386 million HUF (ca. EUR 75 million).

Professional arts education and training have a long-standing tradition: the University of Fine Arts was established in 1871, and the Franz Liszt University of Music, one of the most prestigious music universities around the world, was founded in 1875 (with the personal involvement of Liszt). In institutions of higher education, some hundreds of teachers trained about 4 000 students in 2011/12.

Last update: July, 2016

The latest curriculum of 2012 defines key competences, development fields and educational objectives. None of the development fields is related directly to art education. One of the nine key competences is aesthetic / artistic awareness and expression (in accordance with EU recommendations).

Table 11:  Recommended amount of lessons (in %) per education fields, National Curricula 2012

A minimum of two weekly "Singing and music" lessons and one "Drawing" lesson are included in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools.

From September 2001 a new obligatory subject called "Drama and Dance" was introduced in primary and secondary schools as part of the new framework curricula. The minimum is 18 classes a year but schools may optionally spend more hours on the subject.

These measures are based on reforms in teacher training. The following certificates are now available:

• drama teacher (Decree 8/1998, XII. 1 of the Ministry of Education);
• game and leisure time teacher (Decree 25/1999., VII.6 of the Ministry of Education); and
• dance and drama teacher (Decree 20/1999., IV. 21 of the Ministry of Education).

Cultural heritage studies are available at three universities or colleges in Hungary. (Roma Cultural Heritage Studies planned for Eger have not been launched yet.) The National Centre for Heritage Management and Services (Forster Gyula) has initiated a training programme and an online forum for high school teachers aiming to integrate cultural heritage (i.e. world heritage sites), including intangible heritage (world list of intangible heritage), in the curricula.

Last update: July, 2016

At BA level, students can choose from 22 higher educational programmes, while at MA level, 36 are available in seven different fields (architecture, film and video art, crafts / applied arts, visual arts, multimedia, dance and music). Apart from the programmes within the Bologna system, ten educational programmes stayed in their old one-tier system which is the only higher educational form providing theatre arts. Students may choose form a variety of universities and colleges around the country, counting six art-specified universities and six universities providing arts education, producing nevertheless ten-twentyfold over-application.

Three more – rather specific – higher educational institutions can be found in Hungary. These licensed foreign institutions are a French design academy, a French fashion design school and a branch of the Vienna Konservatorium.

In the field of cultural management, four more (drama, motion picture, visual and music culture) educational fields are available at BA level providing eight different programmes.

Last update: July, 2016

Information is currently not available.

Please find the available information on this subject in 5.3.