PISA tests show decline in European student competence
Saturday, December 9th, 2023An expert reads the result of the international survey as a sign that something has gone wrong in public education in European countries. READ MORE
Hungary ranks low in the international innovation index
Saturday, November 18th, 2023An expert urges new measures to promote the spirit of innovation. READ MORE
Physicist Ferenc Krausz – the second Nobel Prize winning Hungarian in as many days
Thursday, October 5th, 2023Commentators are elated at the news that one day after Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize in medicine, Ferenc Krausz won the Nobel Prize in Physics with French physicists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier, for their superfast pulses of light to study electron dynamics. Just like the previous day, the celebrations are accompanied by political remarks. READ MORE
Teachers’ law passed by Parliament
Thursday, July 6th, 2023A left-wing commentator accuses the government side of voting against Hungary’s future, while a pro-government columnist asserts that the new law will improve teachers’ working conditions. READ MORE
Weeklies on student demonstrators
Monday, May 29th, 2023Opposition-leaning columnists vituperate against the government, whom they accuse of ruining the system of public education while lavishing praise on the few hundred students who have staged demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction. A pro-government analyst finds it shameful for the opposition ‘to send students to the frontline’ to provoke the police. READ MORE
Controversy over State Audit Office report on women
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022A left-wing columnist discusses an analysis on the alleged overrepresentation of female students in higher education. He accuses the government of trying to force traditional gender roles on women. A government critical conservative pundit finds the accusation groundless. READ MORE
School year kicks off with partisan debates
Thursday, September 2nd, 2021A left-wing commentator accuses the government of ignoring the threat of coronavirus by not introducing any restrictions in classrooms. A pro-government pundit blames traffic jams on Budapest Mayor Karácsony. READ MORE
Dispute over child pornography law rolls on
Tuesday, August 17th, 2021A pro-government commentator agrees with the government that LGBT organizations should not be involved in the sexual education of minors. Left-wing and liberal pundits wonder if the Bible and Plato’s works should also be considered as ‘homosexual propaganda’. READ MORE
Weeklies on the government’s referendum
Monday, August 2nd, 2021Left-wing weeklies sharply dismiss the government initiative to hold a referendum on the sexual education of children as a pointless act of propaganda. A right-wing commentator only agrees with them on one point – namely that the plan should be read in the context of mutual efforts to mobilise supporters ahead of next year’s parliamentary election. READ MORE
Lewis Hamilton slams Hungary’s ’child protection law’
Saturday, July 31st, 2021A pro-government author sarcastically thanks the British Formula 1 driver for what he sees as an involuntary contribution to the government’s victory in next year’s election. READ MORE