An Airbus A320 aircraft simulator and school educational laboratory supporting the study of plug in hybrid and electrically driven vehicles were delivered in the Csepel Kossuth Lajos Bilingual Technical Vocational Grammar School located in Budapest.
The vocational grammar school is affiliated to the Budapest Mechanic VET Centre and is countrywide the only institution where upper secondary VET programme exists for aircraft maintainer qualification. The Airbus 320 simulator is a unique and up-to-date teaching tool in Hungary enabling students to use, for educational purposes, the cockpit with real instrumentation in the vocational programmes training aircraft mechanics and technicians.
Ms. Gáborné Pölöskei Deputy State Secretary for VET and AL, Ministry of Innovation and Technology on the delivery ceremony underlined that the purpose of school laboratories’ development is to provide quality labour force for the economy. She noted that the 21st century VET school development programme has begun recently and within its framework the 44 VET Centres will be renewed, the training structure of VET institutions will be harmonized with the changing technologies and the economical demands.
Deputy State Secretary also noted that the expectations of the economy can be fulfilled only if VET is filled with up-to-date content. The modernisation of the content is helped by the recently formed VET Innovation Council. Development of the infrastructure and content respective the process of strengthening dual VET has been started – she indicated.
She also said that the delivered tools were basically financed by the VET Centre which shows that they serve well the functioning of VET. Ms. Gáborné Pölöskei emphasised that the vocational grammar schools are alternatives of the grammar schools. For those who would like to become engineers is worth to choose this type of grammar schools. In these institutions they acquire a well-funded knowledge, which allows not only to enter the higher education but to fulfil their studies much more easily – she added.
The need to deliver more digital knowledge by using modern technologies to students has been identified by the Deputy State Secretary as a fundamental issue. To achieve this it is unavoidable to improve, beside others, the tools and the teachers’ knowledge to forge closer ties between schools and companies.
Director General of the Budapest Mechanic VET Centre, Mr. Béla Horváth said, that in the past two years the developments have been being continued in the 13 member schools affiliated to the centre.
Source: kormany.hu
