Indicator history

A 2010 research report states: "From the data reported by the schools included in this study, the non-promotion rate (the number of students failing the grade in 2008/09 out of the total number of students) is somewhere around 8.9% of the total students from 2008/09 school year. [...] Previous research has proved that the non-promotion rate among Roma is significantly higher than that of the majority
population. If we refer strictly to Roma students, their nonpromotion rate is 15%, according to the data gathered from the schools included in the research." The report shows that this rate is twice as high as the overall non-promotion rate and "over three quarters of all the children who failed the grade in 2008/09 in the researched schools were Roma."

Source:

Gelu Duminică, Ana Ivasiuc, One school for all? : access to quality education for roma children : research report,  Buzău, Alpha MDN, 2011, pp.106-107, available at http://www.unicef.org/romania/One_school_for_all_pt_WEB.pdf (accessed on 17.02.2012).