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Prominent Catholic educator floated as Hungary’s new Education Minister

The new Education Minister of Hungary might be a practising Catholic who is currently director-general of a network of Cistercian schools [1] 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.