Courses for Training Information Processing in Hungarian Higher Education – with a Special Focus on Teaching Shorthand, Typewriting and Word Processing

Katalin Hajdicsné Varga

doi:10.5923/j.edu.20120207.10

Abstract

This study presents those courses and institutions in Hungary which deal with information processing. As an experienced teacher and associate professor I have been studying the history of information processing for more than a decade. The aim of the recent paper is to show studentsâ possibilities in our education system and also to present those innovations that are essential for training court reporters, secretaries and administrators. My researches show that touch-typing and word processing may find is relevance in the system while shorthand has totally been outed from academic education. The study also gives examples of successful e-learning methods and software innovations.

Highlights

On the one hand quite many pupils learnt shorthand and typing in vocational training, on the other hand there were few teachers holding a university degree. This was due to the fact that most teachers applied after so me hours’ training and „teacher-training” and passed an exam before a co mmittee and got a certificate in teaching typing and shorthand
There were some in itiatives in the 1950s
Teacher-training started in 1974 at Nyíregyháza College.[1] (2) Teaching Shorthand and Typing Today in Vocational Train ing Today in education one can hardly recognize the original labels of these subjects

Summary

Introduction

Courses in Data Processing and Teacher-Training (1) The storyline In spite of professional protest teaching shorthand and typing regressed to the level that of prior to the 1950s Both skills had been taught mainly as extra subjects before that for some 80 years. On the one hand quite many pupils learnt shorthand and typing in vocational training, on the other hand there were few teachers holding a university degree This was due to the fact that most teachers applied (mostly for personal reasons) after so me hours’ training and „teacher-training” and passed an exam before a co mmittee and got a certificate in teaching typing and shorthand. B) duties of security, local government, authority-related, controlling and quality assurance, c) duties in customer service, client-contact.[2]

Vocati onal Trainings in Business Admi nistration wi th a Shorthand Panel

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