Discussion of "Matching with Minimal Priority Rights" by Szilvia Pápai

Assigning a seat

Two-sided matching problems with rather different two sides are fairly common. Of course I do not mean the man-woman dichotomy, but rather schools and pupils and offices and staff members. Unlike most authors in the matching literature, Pápai uses this extra info to design a class of matching rules where the two sides are not acting the same. Here are my summary and comments as presented at the annual congress of the Hungarian Society for Economics, 20-21 December, 2011, Budapest.

New university admissions process in Hungary?

New government, new legal system. The changes do not leave education and the famous Hungarian university admissions system unaffected. We summarise the relevant points of the Concept of the new Law for Higher Education (in Hungarian) signed by Dr Rózsa Hoffmann, Secretary of State for education.