The Right to Education in Minority Languages in Bosnia And Herzegovina: The Case of Roma Minority

Abstract

The Roma right to education is guaranteed in the constitution of BiH with the same right to have education in the Romani language as well. Although evidence from research and studies conducted by state and non state institution provides data that firstly Roma enrolement in the educational system is very low and secondly Romani language is almost not learned in any school of the country. This situation fells the domestic provisions of the right of education in the language of different citizens of the country and the international standards that the BiH have ratified and incorporated in its domestic legal provisions. This problem has been a concern for almost 10 years, handled from state institutional mechanisms prespective and non governmental organizations. Policy strategy have been proposed and mechanisms have been deployed in order to foreseen the situation but evidence provides that positive shift toward this issue is very low and with less projection for the future. This policy paper provides a policy solution on short to medium term perspective proposing “Encouraging greater Roma participation in primary, lower secondary and post-compulsory education”. In order to deal with policy proposal I argue for this following recomendations: 1).Supporting enrolement of Roma children, creating more facilitative process of enrolment of pupils. 2).Creation of special classes within the school rather special school –3).Budgetary Fund for Roma Education .4) Romani classes goal –. Creating tertiary education curricula in order to have specialists to teach Romai in primary or secondary schools.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p441