CEU Center for Policy Studies

31/05/2023

20/09/2021

New book: Adapting to Future Challenges to Education. Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia

This volume edited by Peter Rado includes three studies about the first findings of the "Future Challenges to Education Systems in Central Eastern European Context” project of the Center for Policy Studies (Democracy Institute) at Central European University.
The summary studies in this book address three focal areas. The first, written by Balazs Munkacsy and Agota Scharle, provides an assessment of the relative regional contextual relevance of various global challenges to education systems. The second study, by Agnes Kende, looks at the institutional preparedness of schools in the five countries to adapt and change. The last study, by Peter Rado, is a comparative institutional analysis of the preparedness of the five educational governance systems to encourage schools to adapt by effectively conveying clear external expectations.

https://cps.ceu.edu/publications/books/adapting-future-challenges-education-hungary-poland-romania-serbia-and-slovakia

11/06/2021

* * * Institutional transformation * * *

After 20 years of existence the CEU Center for Policy Studies has merged into CEU's flagship research endeavor, the newly established CEU Democracy Institute. The internal institutional transformations are still ongoing and we will conclude our ongoing research initiatives under the brand and identity of CEU CPS. For new ideas and possibilities of future cooperation please have a look at the research agenda of the democracyinstitute.ceu.edu and contact [email protected] or your main CPS research counterpart. Thank you for being part of our journey of the last 20 years!

10/06/2021

The final study of the EDUC project is about the digital preparedness of education systems, authored by Nina Begicevic Redep, professor at University of Zagreb: https://cps.ceu.edu/publications/working-paper/comparative-overview-digital-preparedness-education-systems-selected-cee
Happy reading!

20/05/2021

The last country study of the EDUC project has been published by Vitomir Jovanovic: https://cps.ceu.edu/publications/working-paper/institutional-conditions-adapting-future-challenges-serbian-education
Check out the previous papers too: https://cps.ceu.edu/research/educ

17/05/2021

"Intersectionality and institutional change in Academia: the theory and the practice"

📆 GE Academy organises two online roundtables on 31/05 and 2/06 for:
☑️Human Resources officers in academic/research institutions
☑️Gender Equality Officers/Gender focal points in academic/research institutions
☑️Equal opportunity and diversity officers/EDI staff in academic/research institutions
☑️Gender Equality Plan (GEP) team members in academic/research institutions
☑️Gender Equality activists/promoters in academic/research institutions
☑️Researchers

Learn more and register here:
https://ge-academy.eu/intersectionality-and-its-sister-approaches/
https://ge-academy.eu/intersectional-practices-in-academia/

Date 2 June 2021 Time 14:00-15:30 cest (Brussels time) Moderator Ea Høg Utoft Panelists Andrea D. Bührmann Barbara Hey Gemma Irvine Ingrid Schacherl Sofia Jabeen Important information This online roundtable is part of the intersectionality series of GE Academy. We kindly suggest you consider regis...

14/05/2021

Weekend reading: the Romanian case study of the EDUC project is available, prepared by Lucian Ciolan, Mihaela Stingu and Simona Iftimescu: https://cps.ceu.edu/publications/working-paper/institutional-conditions-adapting-future-challenges-romanian-education
Thirty years after the collapse of communism, and looking ahead to evolutions in demography, technology, climate, international relations and internationalizations, cultural transformations and, more recently, worldwide crises like pandemic, we may say that Romanian education is still “caught in the middle”: between solid reforms and modernization initiatives and recurrence of conservative practices, lack of vision and coherency and structural problems superficially addressed of even neglected.

For previous EDUC project papers go to https://cps.ceu.edu/research/educ.

03/05/2021

Roma children’s bad results at school are caused by institutional racism, our Junior Research Fellow Agnes Kende said in an interview with the Hungarian Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Szabad Europa).

Based on the Future challenges to education systems in Central Eastern European context project, which is aimed at assessing the ability of the education systems of five Central-Eastern European countries to adapt to various ongoing changes, she said that the Hungarian and Slovak school system is the most selective, and assimilation policy is effective in enrollment, but not in success. She also talked about segregation, which appears in new ways, adding that institutionalized racism doesn’t mean that people are racist in general, but every institution is pervaded by discrimination.

Read the full interview (in Hungarian) here.

https://www.szabadeuropa.hu/a/mindent-athat-a-feher-felsobbrenduseg-kende-agnes-szociologus-a-roma-gyerekek-iskolai-sikeressegerol/31224629.html?fbclid=IwAR36uHDviuhcAr2efJfsolCsCMY8fqwW2V47GE3NefIBFBj4USpiHeuoNxc

Korai iskolaelhagyás, alacsony iskolai végzettség, speciális iskolák: a roma gyerekek rossz iskolai helyzete mögött Kende Ágnes szerint intézményes rasszizmus áll. A szociológust a CEU Közpolitikai Tanulmányok Központjának öt kelet-európai ország roma oktatását vizsgáló kutat....

30/04/2021

The 3rd country study of the EDUC project (Future Challenges to Education Systems in Central Eastern European Context) is available now by Maciej Jakubowski (University of Warsaw): The institutional conditions of adapting to future challenges in the Polish education system: https://cps.ceu.edu/publications/working-paper/institutional-conditions-adapting-future-challenges-polish-education

20/04/2021

Continue yesterday's reading with the 2nd comparative paper prepared in frame of the EDUC project (Future Challenges to Education Systems in Central Eastern European Context), this time the focus is on gender issues. Authored by Dorottya Redai: Comparative overview of the capacity of the education systems of five Central Eastern European countries to adapt to changing gender roles: https://cps.ceu.edu/publications/working-paper/comparative-overview-capacity-education-systems-five-central-eastern

19/04/2021

Start the week with reading the latest working paper of the EDUC project (Future Challenges to Education Systems in Central Eastern European Context) by Agnes Kende: Comparative overview of the capacity of the education systems of the CEE countries to provide inclusive education for Roma pupils: https://cps.ceu.edu/article/2021-04-19/comparative-overview-capacity-education-systems-cee-countries-provide-inclusive

09/04/2021

An interview was published in Nepszava with Julia Szalai (available only in Hungarian) about her new book titled 'A nem polgárosuló középosztály'. / Népszava: Leszámolás egy illúzióval - Interjú Szalai Júlia szociológussal.

An interview was published in Nepszava with Julia Szalai (available only in Hungarian) about her new book titled 'A nem polgárosuló középosztály'.