HUNGARY – OH

ORGANIZATION
OH (Oktatási Hivatal – Educational Authority)
1055 Budapest, Szalay utca 10-14.
https://www.oktatas.hu

CIDREE member
Ms Bernadett Puszter
puszter.bernadett(at)oh.gov.hu
Phone +36 1 374 2100/2121
Mobile phone +36 30 166 09 19

CIDREE National Coordinator
Mr Gábor Tomasz
tomasz.gabor(at)oh.gov.hu
Mobile phone +36 30 235 77 44

Institutional size (f.t. equivalents): 1029

Educational levels covered:

Target groups

Mission of the institution

The Educational Authority provides professional support to public and higher education and manages information concerning these fields in a professional and legitimate manner. As its core function it performs tasks related to the administration of public and higher education systems, contributes to the development of public curricula and develops wide range of the textbooks for the different subjects of public education, deals with national and international assessments and through its services it also supports students entering secondary schools and higher education institutions. The Educational Authority is also responsible for maintaining a register of several public administration fields, e.g., the main institutional and personal registers of public and higher education, administration of secondary school-leaving and entrance exams, student and teacher cards, administration and recognition of acquired language exams, as well as recognition of qualifications and degrees obtained abroad. Important tasks of the Authority are the coordination of the nationwide school inspectorate, and also the organisation of the teachers in service training programs and the national classification program for teachers as well.

Key Functions

• Organisation of secondary school entrance and school-leaving exam procedure;
• Organisation of national and international level assessments;
• Providing pedagogical professional support services for public education; in-service teacher trainings, teacher classifications, school inspection;
• Management and analysis of data related to public education and higher education;
• Development of public curricula and qualified textbooks and digital and paper-based materials for teaching and learning;
• Entrance procedure to higher education;
• International relations (e.g. OECD, Eurostat, UNESCO, IEA, EUN).

Relevant Educational Priorities/Projects

• Developing new digital teaching materials for different subjects and grades;
• Implementing adaptive student competence assessments system for grades 4 to 11;
• Providing support for all public educational institutions in the field on the newly implemented national evaluation programme concerning assessment of teachers’ work quality;
• Improving the feedback mechanism between the public educational institution and the Authority.

Relevant Organizational Priorities/Projects

• Improving the high-quality standards of digital services in the everyday work of the Authority;
• Improving the digital and electronically-based client-oriented services by the Authority;
• Renewing and restructuring the official webpage of the Authority, strong correlation with the nationally coordinated digital citizen program.

Additional information

OH also houses the National Pedagogical Library and Museum.
Accreditation Centre for Foreign Language Examination
Hungarian Equivalence and Information Centre