Hardi Tamás - Tóth Károly (szerk.): Határaink mentén. A szlovák-magyar határtérség társadalmi-gazdasági vizsgálata (2008) (Somorja, 2009)
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228 Summary Commuting with educational purposes Cross-border commuting with educational purposes mostly concerns secondary schools and higher education. One of the bases of commuting again is the use of Hungarian language, but there are students commuting from Slovakia to Slovak speaking institutions in Hungary too (offering accommodation and catering for minorities). Students from Slovakia commute to Hungary, no process of opposite direction can be seen, although the demand for it has already appeared. This demand is based on the Hungarian speaking college in Komamo, there is an interest in this institution by students living on the Hungarian side of the border region. Our research findings reveal that both along the western and the eastern border section, approximately half of the students of the institutions are Slovak citizens, as regards the Hungarian settlements included in the survey it is only Balassagyarmat where in each secondary education institution there are students from Slovakia (Figure 7). Along the western border section there is only one institution where more than 20 Slovak citizens with Hungarian ethnicity study, whereas there are 3 in the eastern part of the border region. Two of these can be found in Balassagyarmat, in each school there are some 40 such students. In the institutions in question approximately 360 students with Slovak citizenship but Hungarian ethnicity study, of whom 100 are in Balassagyarmat. The reason for this high number is seen by the leaders of Balassagyarmat in the proximity of the border; however, there are other settlements in the direct vicinity of the border but without such a high number of students. Another possible reason is the supply of trainings in Balassagyarmat. In the recent years several institutions experienced fluctuation in the number of students, the reason for which was the accession to the EU in the opinion of several school leaders. Figure 7. Breakdown of the institutions of secondary education by the number of the students with Slovak citizenship and Hungarian nationality, 2007/2008 - number of institutions No students now No students now, Less than 5 5 to 10 students 10 to 20 students More than 20 No information and in the past formerly there students students were some Ü Western border region ü Eastern border region Note: In Győr there are 26 institutions of secondary education altogether, of which 7 are institutions with a larger number of students examined in the survey, according to the data of the local self-governments. The remaining 19 institutions are not included in the statistics demonstrated in the chart. These institutions are, in all probabilities, among the first three categories in the diagram, as we were informed. Source: By the author.
