Tervvágyak, terválmok
Planned Desires, Planned Dreams

Summary/Abstract: This study makes a review of past and present planning of vocational training and workforces. The study outlines the basic principles of educational planning and gives a brief description of Tinbergen’s theory of education planning. Then the study will look at the development of design-related practice within education in Hungary; first, the study presents the 50’s, where education planning was „labor approach”-based; then, in the late 60’s, a „socio-economic approach” was resorted to in such planning. The writing in this context commemorates the recently deceased János Tímár, who established educational planning in Hungary. The paper goes on to show that economic progress has radically transformed the structure of employment, that there has been the development of a post-industrial society - where the majority of people are working in the service industries, and where services have been decentralized and are volatile... Now, therefore, education planning is, in essence, impossible. Finally, the paper briefly describes the new government’s vocational training and higher education policy, noting that the policy has not been backed up by labor force projections or any overall strategic plan.

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