Factors Determining the Strategy of Hungarian Higher Education in Romania: Demographic and Educational Challenges Cover Image

Adalékok a romániai magyar felsőoktatási stratégiához: demográfiai, oktatáspolitikai, nemzetpolitikai kihívások
Factors Determining the Strategy of Hungarian Higher Education in Romania: Demographic and Educational Challenges

Author(s): Márton Tonk
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Education, Political Sciences, Sociology, School education, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Politics and Identity
Published by: Nemzetpolitikai Kutatóintézet
Keywords: Hungarian language education;Higher Education;European system of university;Transylvania;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyse the current problems and challenges of Hungarian language education policy in Romania. A part of the challenges connected to Transylvanian Hungarian higher education are identical to those characteristics that the Romanian, or more generally the entire European system of university education reflects. Therefore, we briefly present some of the consequences and challenges of the so-called “Bologna Process” regarding higher education. Simultaneously, the special features of Transylvanian Hungarian higher education receives the attention of the larger part of our study. It focuses on the Hungarian language university education system, connected to kin-state policy, demographics and minority rights. What does the Transylvanian Hungarian minority and the higher education institutional system offer? The analyses can obviously not ignore the “topos” of the independent, Hungarian language state university and its dilemmas and challenges are also briefly presented in the study.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 49-62
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian