According to the results of recent studies, learning at the workplace is gaining more and more importance in the life of organisations. In the process of the professional and competence based development the most dominant way of education is the organised trainings outside the institution. Furthermore, there is an increasing number of significant companies which do have a special education policy. On the basis of international and national studies it can be stated that the study of the learning at workplace has become the centre of attention in the past 10 years. The majority of the Hungarian researches considered workplace education as part of adult education, and based it on pedagogical points. In the past 5 years the published anaylises have aimed at revealing the education policies of the companies as well as their connection to economical processes. The issue of learning at work has been reconsidered as a result of the widespreading theory of lifelong learning. The study directs attention to the introduction of the theoretical background as well as to the new approaches from the practice of learning at work, by analysing the training policies and practices of two significant companies
