All eight faculties of the University of Miskolc have disability coordinators, appointed by the deans of the faculties. They are responsible for supervising students with special needs studying at the faculty, assessing students’ needs, organising assistance and providing individual counselling to students and lecturers with special needs.
TheUniversity Disability Coordinator, who is appointed by the Rector, is responsible for the professional support of students with disabilities. Responsibilities of the University Disability Coordinator:
- maintaining contact with the faculty disability coordinators,
- Providing assistance to students with disabilities in their studies and examinations, and organising consultations requested by students with disabilities,
- monitoring the application of the “Preferential Treatment Policy”,
- reviewing and forwarding to the faculties requests for exemption, assistance and benefits for students with disabilities,
- participating in the work of the University Equal Opportunities Committee,
- maintaining contact with students with disabilities and their personal assistants,
- proposing the use of normative support to assist students with disabilities in their studies, the purchase of equipment and other expenditure,
- determining entitlement to a normative grant on the basis of the fact and severity of the disability,
- if necessary, making recommendations to the university’s management in order to ensure more satisfactory equal opportunities for students with disabilities.
The work of the university disability coordinator is reviewed annually by students with disabilities. The Rector takes the results of the review into account when appointing the disability coordinator.
Useful information for people with disabilities
The National Higher Education Act adopted in 2011 does not contain any significant changes for students with disabilities. Perhaps the most important piece of information is that state-funded (in the new law: state scholarship-funded) status can still be extended by 4 semesters, so under the current legislation the maximum period of support available for a disabled student for a given course of study can be up to 6 semesters longer than the duration of the course of study, but not exceeding 12+4=16 semesters in total.
International students’ certificate for eligibility of special services
Based on § 63 of Government Decree 87/2015 (IV. 9.):
- (4) If the applicant who is not a Hungarian citizen does not have a place of residence in Hungary, or in the absence of such a place of residence, the disability may be verified by a certified translation of the expert opinion issued abroad, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3). The higher education institution shall publish on its website a list of the languages for which it accepts nonauthentic translations.
- (5) If the applicant or student who is not a Hungarian citizen holds an expert opinion issued abroad, the disability may be certified by a certified translation of the expert opinion issued abroad, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3). The higher education institution shall publish on its website a list of the languages for which it accepts a nonauthentic translation.
The University of Miskolc accepts non-official translations of expert opinions in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Deadlines
We kindly ask the students concerned to pay special attention to the expiry date of the disability certificate and to arrange for the review to be initiated in time. This will help to avoid missing out on benefits such as extra semesters on state scholarships or language examinations without a valid certificate.
