There have been continuous changes in VET policy in Hungary in the last ten years. However, the prestige of VET has not improved as a result of the, apparently facilitating, measures taken by governments. Hungary has rich experience in dual VET which explains why researchers have drawn attention to certain problems. There is a risk that nowadays dual training better serves the coordination of economic needs and training only in the case of large companies who mainly try to ensure their own labour supply, and train pupils for themselves. We have to emphasize that simplification, considering VET mostly from a short-term labour market perspective, forgetting its complexity as a system with several external factors, has weakened its prestige and compromised its quality, especially in the lower ‘branch’ of VET. The maneuver, which is an essential condition for meaningful negotiations between VET actors, is provided only in moderation in Hungary. In the current circumstances and in the near future, only conditions for the “Distinct VET” and the “VET for special purposes” scenarios seem to be in place. However, the author considers the potential of the new scenarios as a catalyst for innovations and strategies in VET in the future.

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