University education and Hungarian minority in Slovakia 1918-1938

Abstract

The paper is devoted to education issues of young generation of Hungarian minority at universities in Czechoslovak Republic in their mother tongue. The situation in years 1918– 1922 is analyzed, when students of Hungarian nationality were fi nishing university studies of law in Hungarian language in Bratislava and in Košice. Paper analyses with obstacles which they were encountering. Hungarian students, interested to acquire university education in their native language were attending universities in Hungary, namely in Budapest. Analyzed is also a measure of Ministry of Schools adopted in year 1928, which annulled validation of diplomas issued by Hungarian universities. Consequently, identical measure was adopted by Hungarian authorities. Paper is also pointing to a moderate increase of Hungarian university students in Czechland and Slovakia, which, however, was in monitored period not higher than 5 % and to negative reaction of Hungarian students that there was no university in Czechoslovakia offering education in Hungarian language.