R&D partnership: The CEE story of the “Comprehensive Movement”

Abstract

The research aims to explore the links between school development and the demands of local communities in present-day Central and Eastern European (CEE) societies. Rationale Before the sociopolitical turn of 1989/1990, schools in Hungary and East Central Europe were strictly centralized and monopolized by the communist parties and the governments. Schools and curricula were centrally managed, subjects (e.g., Russian language teaching) were prescribed and compulsory, and the structure of education was uniformly definedthroughout the regionwithout considering the demands of the consumers

Social Mobility through Education: Lifelong Learning and the Roma-Minority in Selected Central and Eastern European Countries

“…According to Katalin R. Forray in Hungary there are increasing activities of different churches to establish colleges of advanced studies in higher education for Roma or non-Roma students with an extremely low sociocultural status to obtain a higher degree in education. They seem to be helpful for a great number of young Roma people to achieve a degree in higher education (Forray, 2018). In the Czech Republic the example of the Masaryk University -where in 2016 there were ten Roma students in the preparatory program -shows that special courses can help Roma students to increase their attainment and success in higher education: "In ten years, more than one hundred and fifty Roma students took part in preparatory courses for further education of adults at Masaryk University.…”