Mi változott és mi nem a pedagógushiány újratermelésében?
What Has Changed and What Hasn’t Changed in the Re-production of Teacher Shortage?

Summary/Abstract: In 1986, the author published a paper entitled “Why the teacher shortage cannot be eliminated – if there is none?” in the Pedagogical Review (Pedagógiai Szemle). In it he argued that in the system of education management and financing in Hungary at that time, the teacher shortage was irrecoverable because the system, by its very structure, always reproduced the shortage at a certain level. He argued that the view that “if we spend a lot more money on education, there will be no teacher shortage” is wrong under the circumstances. In this paper, he examines what has changed since then in the way the domestic teacher shortage has been re-produced and managed. It concludes that, until 2010, the mechanisms that had always reproduced the deficit up to a certain level continued to work as described earlier. However, after 2010, while the deficit reproduction continued, radical cuts in education budgets, drastic centralisation of educational governance and funding decisions, strict nationalisation of most of the institutional network, and the restructuring of the teacher pay system rendered inoperable the mechanisms that had kept the deficit at an acceptable level for decades. This has now led to a strengthening of protest movements by teachers, parents and students.

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