Az expanzió vége?
The End of Expansion?

Summary/Abstract: Higher education expansion is one of the most hotly-debated policy questions in Hungary today. According to the government, the higher education system has to shrink because of the present and up-and-coming demographic wave crest; and if the system shrinks (according to the universities) standards for access will have to be raised so to avoid mass higher education in the future. The authors of the present paper argue that a) the debating parties are using the concept ‘expansion’ with various meanings, and cannot therefore entirely understand each other; b) according to present data, demographics are not yet influencing the fact of persons’ accessing higher education - the number of full time applications is still rising (while figures for part-time applicants show a decline), and social demand for higher education access and studies (applicant percentage for the relevant age group) is still intense. Innovative strategies are then recommended relating to higher education developments to thereby save the system and its institutions in an age of further demographic decline.

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