Education, Education, and More Education

Education is perhaps the only universal public service remaining after the political change in Central and Eastern Europe, available to every resident. However equal access to education, particularly for vulnerable groups such as Roma, is not guaranteed; litigation has proven to be a poor tool for gaining access. Indeed, where progress towards improving opportunities for Roma has been made, as for example in Hungary, sociologists and educators must be praised for having fought their way through legislation with little help from domestic lawyers.