A Rajk-modell: egy pedagógiai kísérlet és tapasztalatai
The ‘Rajk Model’: A Pedagogical Experiment and Its Results

Summary/Abstract: The quality of a country's education system, among other things, relays on the existing forms of diversity and the inclusion of innovative experiments. The College for Advanced Studies is such an innovative form, a combination of accomodations and professional programmes. The striking features of these colleges are their professionalisms, community commitments and social sensitivities. The ‘Rajk College, established 47 years ago, served as a model for several dozens of similar institutes of excellence in Hungarian higher education. It is a typical bottom-up initiative which is based on self governance of the student community and essentially operates without external (government) financial support. The programme of the ‘college’ is combined with other excellence initiatives (CEMS, international relations, student research competitions, curriculum development, etc.). The career pathes of Rajk alumni members (close to 800 today) provide a verification of the successfulness of the Rajk-model. Dissemination of this model will help our universities to become internationally competitive by educating professional and community elites.

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