communication skills of minority pupils in the state language.
The office of the ombudsman has recently weighed in on the issue, calling on the Ministry of
Education to ensure the teaching of the state language according to the modified curriculum and
textbooks as soon as possible in the schools where the language of education is a minority language.
The National Council for Combatting Discrimination also fined the Ministry of Education for the
fact that the new Romanian textbooks for Hungarian pupils have consistently arrived late in the past
few years, with children being without proper educational materials for months.
To conclude, the issue of education in the case of minority children is not automatically solved by
ensuring a minority language education system. Ensuring quality in education is also key. As
pointed out in the Recommendations of the European Regional Forum, children and parents should
not be forced to choose between quality education or perpetuating their own linguistic and cultural
identity.