Early school leaving in the context of policy-making in Hungary

Abstract

This Working Paper grew out of our contribution to the first phase of the large-scale research project "Reducing Early School Leave in the European Union" (RESL.eu) that engages in exploring the causes and the perpetuating mechanisms behind the disturbingly high – in certain cases: increasing – occurrences of early school leaving (ESL) in nine member states of the European Union. The aim of the first phase of RESL.EU was to review and assess the prevailing domestic and transnational policies as well as the contributions of national and international civil society actors to tackling early school leaving and to reducing the proportion of early school leavers to ten percent by 2020, i.e. to the authoritative level that has been set by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 framework.