Magyar Felsőoktatás, 1996 (6. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1996-05-01 / 5-6. szám
The program of Regional Economic Studies: Gyula Horváth and Attila Sántha The authors define the program for complex graduate, postgraduate and PhD courses in Regional Economic Studies. Why is it necessary? On the one hand, Hungary attempts to join the European Union so that its economic performance could improve. On the other hand, inequalities of development within the country should be considered: less developed regions have to be supported to avoid an economic slump and the impoverishment of their population. Teacher training 2000: Irén Bors The Primary Teacher Training College of Budapest obtained its present status in 1975. Four-year training of primary school teachers has begun in the current academic year. The college provides training, in-service training and re-training for teachers of the next century. Thus the strategy of education, the approach and the system of teaching practice should be tailored to this goal. The institution has to meet a two-fold challenge: the requirements of both higher and lower-level public education in a period of sweeping changes in both areas. Training for the food industry - a path to follow: Mrs. Hajdú and Zoltán Lakner Social change also triggers new tasks in higher education, i. e. professionals who can meet the labour market requirements should be educated. Training for the food industry may begin with increasing efficiency in the labour market. The authors conclude that organisational changes are of less importance in improving current conditions: the key factor is the modernising the content of higher education. They analyse related experience of the developed countries and point out the similarities between their conclusions and te state of affairs in Hungary. City universities?: Zoltán Sidó The formation of Czechoslovakia (despite of the considerable number of the Hungarian minority annexed to the new state) brought the end to higher education in the Hungarian language. Up to 1990 no remarkabe inititatives were taken to establish an autonomous Hungarian institution of higher education. The so-called city universities, which have been formed since then, are not universities proper. For instance, the Slovak state does no provide grants for them. The author proves, providing statistical data, that students of Hungarian mother tongue are disadvantaged compared to their Slovak fellow-citizens. A computer program experiment: Agnes Kunszenti The experiment carried out at the University of Oslo aims to help students learn their major subject, chemistry. This program currently contains four series of questions, each of which is based on similar situtations and initial questions which have proved to be problematic but are not discussed in textbooks. Instead of evaluation, the answers are followed by a new question which helps or is even necessary to answer the previous question. The works of Henrik Ibsen in computer networks: Agnes Kunszenti and Ferenc Kovács Henrik Ibsen, the word-famous Norwegian playwright, died ninety years ago. Two Norwegian universities experiment in how the works of Ibsen could be made available for primarily researchers, university professors and students. The University of Bergen took the initial steps when they adapted Ibsen’s plays from books to computerized, digital format. This experiment may encourage similar initiatives in this field. János Hunyadi: Endre Sz. Szász We pay homage to János Hunyadi, one of the last successful defenders of Europe against Turkish conquest. The Pope Callixtus III ordered to pray and toll the bells at noon, hoping that this would (also) help to defeat the army of Muhammad II. Bells had been sounded at noon for a year, until Hunyadi’s victory in Nándorfehérvár on 22nd July, 1456, and they have been tolled each day since then in the Christian world. Martin Heidegger: Tibor Korányi Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, deceased twenty years ago. The outstanding representative of German existential thinking had an ominous and unspeakable world of thought. Philosophical streams which become more fashionable and popular from time to time sometimes push Heidegger’s thoughts aside, but his philosophy will probably have many reneissances in forthcoming ages. 58 1996/5-6.► Magyar Felsőoktatás