Hungary’s PM Orbán Calls For Better Foreign Language Education
- 20 Jun 2017 8:32 AM
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has commissioned Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog to assess the conditions of foreign language teaching in public education and to create a mid-term strategy to improve the situation, according to Hungarian online news portal index.hu.
The minister has a little more than a year to sketch out a plan that should be executed in the 2018-2027 period, according to official gazette Magyar Közlöny, index.hu reports.
The Hungarian portal notes Eurostat data revealing that 66% of people in the 25-66 age group speak a foreign language in addition to their mother tongue in the EU 28, but in Hungary the equivalent ratio is only around 37%.
Among our neighbors, 92% of Slovenians speak at least one foreign language, while the ratio is above 70% in Slovakia, Austria and Romania.
By Christian Keszthelyi
Source: BBJ
Republished with permission
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