This reportedly caught the attention of the education experts who under the current centre-right government have pledged to boost education and put Hungary back on the international map of excellence. Proposals include the fact that teachers will have less hours teaching and more hours preparing for their subjects and expanding their own knowledge. Teachers with a masters degree will reportedly only teach a weekly 19 hours, while other qualified teachers will be asked to serve 21.

Grade ‘R’ each teacher will have maximum 15 students, while primary school teachers will have maximum 20 and highschool masters will have 25 pupils to cater for. Experts welcomed the news with relief after the former social-liberal government closed down schools and merged others swelling classes to between 30 and even 40 pupils in some cases, earlier reports said. Currently Hungary is considered to be the world’s leading nation concerning the number of Nobel prize winners per country per capita."

By Tamas S. Kiss, published on XpatLoop.com with the permission of BudapestReport.com