Dilemmas of higher education and agricultural training

Magda, Sándor – Herneczky, Andrea – Marselek, Sándor

Keywords: agricultural education, agricultural economy, bologna process, competitive training

Knowledge-based and competitive economies raise high demands for education. Experts of today can only be successful if they undertake that lifelong learning will be a principle of planning and accomplishing of their profession. It can be observed that popularity of agricultural education has decreased because of low respect and salary of experts as well as of unfavorable publicity of their work. The preseent education has too many branches. Due to massification of education and lower level of secondary school studies there is somewhat inferior quality among people choiceing a career. New teaching methods, preference of practical education and a proper system of motivations can help in this situation.
The present BSc education does not make possible deeper theoretical studies during the three years, neither offers the half-year practical training enough preparedness and skills for doing the work. Therefore it is necessary to reconsider the present educational system, strengthening training of practical nature and requiring a minimum level of knowledge from beginners.

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