Welcome

The first issue of the 13th volume of Opus et Educatio, now the 48th in a row, is still closely linked to education and, within it, to teacher training, as a university periodical that addresses the interaction of work and education from a multidisciplinary perspective. Although the required interaction between education and research can be effectively implemented under these conditions, one of the peculiarities of our journal is that its issues are now published alternately in English and Hungarian. In fact, all this raises a delicate dilemma from the point of view of scientific communication or pedagogical culture: international referencing classifications rightly consider the measurability, number, and distribution of authors, reviewers, and especially references to be essential criteria. Well, given all this, with the alternating issues in English and Hungarian, we would like to provide domestic authors, especially those participating in doctoral training and lacking experience in scientific publishing, with modern professional publication opportunities and methodological support.

For the second year in a row, we have been striving to publish a current topic that is at the forefront of professional interest in our Online First column in an accelerated manner. The first article in this issue is related to the opening article of our ongoing discussion series, Kristóf Nyíri's "Renewed higher education, renewed science?" (12th Vol. 4 (2025): 47th issue / Online First). The article by Ádám Nagy and Anna Fazekas: Open books, closed doors? - changes in learning intentions based on large-scale youth research data aims to analyze whether the “open educational scissors” can also be interpreted in the case of learning intentions, i.e. whether the assumption is valid that while the intention to continue studying among those with higher education or university degrees is almost a natural need (status preservation), aversion to the school system is common among young people with lower backgrounds. Although the authors' study is basically about the changes in the reading habits of Hungarian youth, international professional attention may also be rightly interested in the effect of social reproduction: in the case of graduated parents, the chances of young people having plans to continue their education are much higher than in the case of parents with lower qualifications. Furthermore, attitudes toward financial opportunities also significantly influence further education, especially among young people who enjoy a carefree status; the motivation to continue their education is stronger, whereas a lower status makes it more likely that such plans will be abandoned. Three articles in our traditional Studies column deal with particularly current topics. illustrating the innovative effects of the online world in multidisciplinary areas. Nikoletta Tolnar and Monika Pogatsnik: Reconceptualising the Notion of Online Exam Cheating Based on the Results of a Questionnaire Survey, Valeria Nagy: Interpretation of workplace well-being in higher education along the analogy of collective synchronisation, and Károly Herényi and Zsuzsa Mátrai: The role of transferable skills in the educational mismatch of employed graduates are noteworthy research reports. In this issue, we have undertaken both qualitative and quantitative innovations. All of this is based on the recognition that the number of case studies in research has increased gratifyingly. In this genre, it is sometimes more difficult to obtain publication opportunities, but at the same time, these descriptive evaluative articles can enrich the empirical body of research and can provide significant impulses to researchers already active in the given field, on the one hand, and on the other hand, they present insights and experiments related to practice in higher education, which can make learning more realistic and interesting.

Based on this insight, we launched a new section, Case Studies, which published two studies. As part of an international project, four authors - Borbély-Pecze, Tiboe, Bors¸Hloušková, Lenka; Šprlák, Tomáš; Crăciun, Marian - completed the study Career Guidance in the Central and South-Eastern European Region: The case of four countries via the lenses of non-governmental organisations. The other case study - Katalin Gyöngyösi, Gyula Balogh, and Péter Lukács – its title is also telling: “Boldly and without taboos” - A case study of the First-Hand Information on Homelessness awareness-raising programme. Following the case studies, the Editorial Board wants to provide more space for articles describing research, new publications, and books to expand opportunities for scientific communication. Therefore, our Review section also publishes reviews of three interesting and noteworthy works. Thanks to the reviewers – Claudia Stöckl, Balázs Németh, and Sári Krisztina Nagy.

Dear Reader,

We have entered the spring of 2026. This welcome, like the previous one, is less detailed due to the changes and colorful content; the gratifyingly increasing number of articles together offer the reader and analyst the opportunity to learn about the details of a topic or column. All this shows that Opus et Educatio has become more dynamic, the authors' interest has increased gratifyingly, and our periodical is developing in sync with this.

Budapest, March 2026

András Benedek

Editor-in-Chief