Hungarian Foreign Language Learning Programme postponed

The Foreign Language Learning Program was due to give opportunities to thousands of Hungarian students to participate in a 2-week-long language programme in summer 2022. Unfortunately, the government decided to postpone it until 2023 due to the pandemic.

As announced by Mónika Bartos who is the Hungarian government ministerial commissioner responsible for coordinating the study trip for 9th and 11th-grade students. The programme would not go ahead in 2022 due to complications caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The government decided it would be irresponsible to go ahead with the programme during the uncertain situation caused by Covid-19 and they are more positive that there will be no challenges in 2023 to implement the programme.

The programme, run by the Tempus Public Foundation, a non-profit organization managing this educational project on behalf of the government, was supposed to start in 2020 but with the start of the pandemic, it had been moved to 2022. The project is going to offer a funded two-week English language summer course to eligible High school students in either the UK, Ireland or Malta.

The news about postponing the project again was received with sadness by the ELT sector in the UK.

English UK wrote in their statement: “We know how important this programme is to many of our members, and it is devastating for