Hungary has a National Core Curriculum (NCC) which sets national goals for education, the main subjects to be taught and the key educational objectives within these. The NCC sets the framework and local authorities have to set in place curricula in accordance with these principles.
Informatics is a compulsory subject in public education across Hungary. This includes ICT knowledge, digital literacy and a range of other themes (including using different pieces of ICT for particular aims).
The NCC implemented in 2007 includes digital competence as a key competence. It is defined as follows:
Digital competence comprises the confident, critical use of Information Society Technology (IST) in work, communication and leisure time. This is based on the following skills and activities: recognition, research, evaluation, storage, preparation, introduction and editing of information, and communication and networking through the internet.
At the present time, there is no national system for the assessment of this digital competence. However, work is being done to construct and implement an ICT qualification framework over the next few years.
