Second cycle primary school teachers follow a four-year course at a college of education and specialize in two subjects. According to the 1996 Amendment of the Public Education Act, a college or university qualification is needed to teach academic subjects or a special field of the National Core Curriculum in elementary education. Training of secondary school teachers Secondary school teachers are trained in five years in universities and in four years in teacher training colleges. According to the Higher Education Act, only those with a university degree may be teachers or lecturers in higher education institutions. The Higher Education Teaching Qualification may only be obtained after four or five years of university study.
Teachers are subject specialists.
Other forms of non-formal higher education Evening or correspondence courses, run by higher education institutions, are widely available within the framework of adult education. The universities and colleges define the level of school achievement and subjects to be taken into account. There are certain courses where students are admitted on the basis of an entrance examination. Other universities also offer preparatory courses. Hungarian higher education institutions also offer higher education programmes in foreign languages.