Academics In Hungary Protest Against Higher Education Reform

  • 26 Mar 2021 10:44 AM
  • Hungary Matters
Academics In Hungary Protest Against Higher Education Reform
The forum of academic employees have rejected the government’s bill of higher education reform, citing lack of wide-spread consultation and the circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic.

“It has become clear that certain universities … voted in favour of the restructuring while its true content was not known, and will not be published until the bill is submitted to parliament,” the Forum of Academic Employees (ADF) said in a statement.

ADF noted the earlier reorganisation of the Academy of Sciences, and said “the unlawful separation of the research network [from the Academy], and poorly prepared legislation have created uncertainty and caused great damage.”

 The forum called on the government and commissioner István Stumpf to refrain from “abusing the grave [pandemic] situation in which the university citizenship and the academic community cannot represent its interests.”


Photo courtesy: Hungarian Academy Staff Forum (HASF)

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