Hungary to shut down gender studies as ‘they are a wasteful luxury and destroy values’
from Voice of Europe:
In August the Hungarian government introduced legislation to shut down “accredited” gender studies programs offered by universities in Hungary.
Academics now have 24 hours to respond to the government’s plan. The ban will primarily impact students at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (ELTE)–the only institution in Hungary, other than Central European University, to offer gender studies at the graduate level, and the only one to provide this program in Hungarian.
Only 11 applicants were admitted this year at ELTE and two at CEU. The maximum number of students that ELTE can admit any given year is 18 and those enrolled this coming academic year will be the last to take this program in Hungary.
The decision to give those impacted 24 hours, in the middle of the summer holiday, to respond to this plan is a prime example of the spectacular way that this regime has upset leftists for the past eight years.
Gender studies in Hungary pose a risk to the social narratives espoused by Fidesz and the Christian Democrats.
Lőrinc Nacsa, the leader of KDNP’s youth wing, labelled gender studies at ELTE as a wasteful luxury and also as destructive.
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