The study’s aim is to examine the degree to which residential segregation, inter-school mobility, local educational policies and the share of a town’s Roma population influence school segregation in Hungarian primary schools. In order to determine the impact of various factors on school segregation, a sample was conducted in 100 town and cities in Hungary with the largest Roma populations outside of Budapest.

Budapest, 13 May 2013

Bucharest, 9 May 2013

The Roma Education Fund was invited to join Mr. George Soros, Chairman of the Open Society Foundations, and Dr Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, during their Bucharest on 9 May 2013. As a co-founder – together with the former World Bank president James Wolfensohn – of the Roma Education Fund, Mr. Soros’ financial support has enabled over a half million young Roma to access formal, quality inclusive education from the preschool to university level.

On the occasion of 8 April, International Roma Day, the Roma Education Fund (REF) welcomes the recent statement of Minister Dušan Čaplovič, who called for preschool education free of charge for children from the age of four. In addition, REF would like to call the attention of the public to the their research activities identifying the biggest barriers in education, as well as the piloted programs indicating the way forward to an inclusive education system.