A magyar tannyelvű közoktatás elmúlt tíz éve a tanulói létszámadatok tükrében
The Last 10 Years of Hungarian-Language Public Education in Romania in View of the Number of Students

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the changes in the number of students studying in Hungarian-language public education institutions in Romania in the period 2011–2020. The research relies primarily on the data series of the Romanian Ministry of Education. In the last 10 years, the number of students in Hungarian-language education institutions in Romania, from the level of kindergarten to secondary schools, has decreased by 11.8%, by a total of about 19,500 people. The extent of the change varies depending on the level of education and is related to the structural changes of the Romanian education system in the last decade and a half. From a territorial point of view, the loss of Hungarian-language education is more significant in those counties and settlements where the demographic weight of the Hungarian population is lower (either numerically or proportionally). On the other hand, a stream is perceptible from villages to cities, from smaller administrative units to administrative centres. The change can be felt not only at the level of the number of students, but also at the level of the network of Hungarian-language educational institutions.

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