The new Education Minister of Hungary might be a practising Catholic who is currently director-general of a network of Cistercian schools according to local media reports of the impending announcement. A new government under Peter Magyar won a landslide victory in the recent Hungarian election and has promised to keep some of the social policies of his predecessor, Viktor Orban. Magyar is a practising Catholic.
Rita Rubovszky has worked in teaching, school management and European-level policy work.
Her academic credentials include a degree in Hungarian–French comparative literature, followed by scholarship studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
She has taught in several Budapest secondary schools, served for a decade on a language examination board, and spent 12 years as vice-president of the European Association of Catholic Teachers.
She also worked in Brussels as an EU distance-learning specialist.
