Education
The activity also resulted in a joint webpage on social media that
increased interest in the multi-cultural council and its work.
The overall goal of these initiatives was to provide students from
different communities with an opportunity to interact, socialize,
and learn about each other in order to improve inter-ethnic relations, both among them and in the wider community. Over time,
the OSCE expanded the scope of its work towards supporting the
national and local authorities, youth structures, and civil society
organizations in creating relevant youth policies and strategic documents at the local and central levels. In this way, youth engagement could be leveraged for improving inter-ethnic relations.
3. Multilingual higher education
Under one country’s laws, national minorities had the right to
pre-school, primary, and secondary school education in their
language, while higher education was only provided in the state’s
majority language.
Because of this, the non-majority population had been complaining
of discrimination and lack of inclusion in state institutions. Children
from the non-majority population had been educated separately in
their mother tongue, with only a few hours of instruction per week
in the majority language. Following a comprehensive analysis conducted by the co-ordination board responsible for the area with the
support of the OSCE and the international community, the majority
language curriculum was found to be inadequate. The respective
study showed that most students spoke their mother tongue at
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