The Invisible College, a non-traditional institution in Budapest offering individual tutoring and academic support to a limited number of"gifted” university students, has won this year’s Hannah Arendt Prize.
The prize, first awarded in 1995, is given annually by the Vienna-based Institute for Human Sciences in recognition of “outstanding, self-initiated reform efforts in higher education and research” in the formerly Communist countries of Eastern Europe. It carries a cash grant from the Korber Foundation of Hamburg, Germany, of 300,000 marks, or about $176,000.
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