• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• March for Education Reaches Budapest

March for Education Reaches Budapest

• 9 Jan 2023 9:49 AM
• Hungary Matters

A march for education started from Miskolc, in northern Hungary, on Monday reached the Kölcsey Ferenc Secondary School in Budapest’s sixth district on Saturday afternoon, where student and teacher organisations held a demonstration.

The speakers, who completed the 180km distance of the march, talked about their hope that a free and child-friendly education system would be established as soon as possible.

They emphasised the importance of solidarity and pledged to continue what they started in education last year.

They also addressed the “systemic segregation” affecting the Roma in Hungarian public education and criticised the dismissal of the fourteen teachers who had been laid off for participating in civil disobedience.

Participants raised banners saying “No teacher, no future”, “Strike is a fundamental right”, “We want our form teacher back” as well as the national and the European Union flag and the flags of the teachers’ unions.

MTI Photo: Szilárd Koszticsák 

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• March for Education Teacher

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

Hungary Vetoes EU Higher Education Strategy

• 28 Nov 2025 8:07 AM

Hungary has vetoed the European Union's four-year higher education strategy, Balazs Hanko, the minister of culture and innovation, said in Brussels on Thursday, adding that Hungary made clear that only once Hungarian students are restored their rightful access to the Erasmus programme will Hungary approve the higher education strategy.



Union: 'Christian Culture' Ideology in Hungarian Kindergartens 'Unacceptable'.

• 14 Nov 2025 8:27 AM

The PDSZ teacher union has slammed what it called "ideological interference" in kindergarten education "under the pretext of Christian culture" as "unacceptable", emphasising that kindergarten education "cannot be a venue for political propaganda or religious conversion".



Opposition to Orbán: Marki-Zay Asks EU to Freeze Funds to Hungary & Fresh Protest

• 24 Sep 2025 12:48 PM

The European Union should not give a single penny to Hungary or Viktor Orban's government until the Orban government releases the domestic and EU funds owed to Hodmezovasarhely, said Peter Marki-Zay, mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, in Brussels.



New Huge Protest in Budapest - 'Tough Autumn' Ahead for Hungarian Politics

• 3 Sep 2025 9:32 AM

Autumn will be "tough" in Hungarian domestic politics, independent lawmaker Akos Hadhazy said in Budapest on Tuesday, at a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of amendments to the law on the freedom of assembly, and against the adoption of the law on the transparency of public life.