Education of Roma
Ministry of Education and Science in the scope of its reform of
education pays a lot of attention to integration of Roma into
formal education system, aiming to ensure a good quality
primary education for this population and that way assist their
integrations into Montenegrin society.
Regarding Roma national minority and learning Romany mother
tongue it can be stated that there are important problems in
integration of this population into formal educational system.
Problems in education of Roma are reflected in the following:
lack of teaching personnel
Romany language is not standardized and Roma in
Montenegro speak very different dialects
There are no textbooks for conducting teaching in Romany
language.
According to conducted researches in Montenegro and wider,
Roma are the poorest part of the population, and as one of the
main reasons for their extreme poverty, according to the
research, is high percentage of illiterate people among them
(above 50%), which is much more than in domicile population in
Montenegro (2.35% of the illiterate, according to the Census
from 2003).
In the scope of wider support to education of Roma and
moderating poverty in overall population,
Ministry of
Education and Science has taken a set of necessary measures to
increase an umber of Roma children in formal educational
system and those are:
in the last two years it allocated textbooks free of charge and
writing utensils for all Roma pupils that registered into first
grade of the primary school