The Roma Education Fund regularly seeks to provide an analysis of education and the ongoing education reforms from the perspective of the inclusion of Romani children in the countries taking part in the Decade of Roma Inclusion and that are under the mandate of REF. Country Assessments also review the relevant REF programs and activities carried out since its establishment in 2005 and highlights the thematic and program areas on which REF plans to focus.
Bulgaria
The Roma Education Fund regularly seeks to provide an analysis of education and the ongoing education reforms from the perspective of the inclusion of Romani children in the countries taking part in the Decade of Roma Inclusion and that are under the mandate of REF. Country Assessments also review the relevant REF programs and activities carried out since its establishment in 2005 and highlights the thematic and program areas on which REF plans to focus.
Bulgaria
“Unchallenged ethnic segregation of Roma in the education system is exacerbated by an increasingly socially stratified education system that confines students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds to lower quality education compared to peers from better-off families.”
To read more about Advancing the Education of Roma in Bulgaria, click here.
Montegro
“Despite spending on education comparable to its neighbors, Montenegro has not seen comparable outcomes and major reforms of the education system lie ahead. Although there has been little improvement in PISA scores, Montenegro has embarked on a universal enrollment program for primary education in the last five years. However, just one-fifth of Roma children under the age of five attend regular preschool, while only 29 percent go on to complete primary education, and only five percent attending secondary school. Remarkably, some 26 percent of school-age children have never attended school.
To read more about Advancing the Education of Roma in Montengegro, click here.
REF also published a Croatian Country Assessement earlier in 2015 and a Slovak Country Assessment in late 2014.
