The number of young people leaving Hungary has doubled since 2010, deputy head of parliament’s education, science and research committee Agnes Osztolykan, of the small opposition LMP party, said on Sunday.
There are more and more young people who want to study abroad and about one third of secondary school leavers say they plan a future abroad, Osztolykan said quoting information she gathered during her recent tour of Hungary. Every fifth Hungarian would be willing to settle and work outside Hungary and nearly half of people in their 20s want to move away and work abroad, she added.
Osztolykan said the withdrawal of funds from higher education had started during the Bajnai government and continued with the current Orban administration. Funding in higher education has been cut by around 40 percent, she added.
Hungary is still far behind the European Union average concerning the proportion of people with higher education, she said.
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