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By Sara Memo, School of International Studies, University of Trento
By Harika Dauth, Universität Leipzig
Reports
Minority Policy in Slovakia 03/2011. Critical Quarterly of the Centre for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture.
There are several articles devoted to the policies concerning the Roma: Revised national action strategy to the decade of Roma inclusion, a new proposals of policies in the area of repro rights of Romani women, and new proposals to change distribution of material need benefits.
School as Ghetto: Systemic Overrepresentation of Roma in Special Education in Slovakia
Coordinators, Eben Friedman and Mihai Surdu (eds) Roma Education Fund 2009.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to quantify the representation of Roma in special education for children with mental disability in Slovakia and to analyze the factors accounting for this level of representation. In so doing, the study seeks to provide policy makers and civil society in Slovakia as well as relevant international organizations with a sound empirical basis for measures to address the situation in such a way as to reduce the gain education outcomes between Roma and non-Roma.
Eben Friedman, Elena Gallová Kriglerová, Mária Herczog, Laura Surdu, Roma Education Fund 2009.
This working paper is intended to serve as a resource for governments in Central and Eastern Europe as they consider whether to introduce conditional cash transfers (CCTs) for education as a tool to reduce the gap in educational outcomes between Roma and non-Roma. Since the early 1990s, programmes linking social benefits to school enrolment and/or attendance have been introduced in over 30 countries on fve continents. Among the countries which have implemented CCTs for education are three countries in Central and Eastern Europe with sizeable Romani populations: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. More recently, the Roma Education Fund (REF) has supported scholarship programmes in upper-secondary education in Macedonia, Romania and Serbia which have made receipt of cash benefits depend on attendance and achievement.
