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

Thank you for your attention!

Contacts:

www.diplomantul.hu

veroszta.zsuzsanna@educatio.hu