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| MEDIA HEADLINES 09/07/2008 |
| (2008-07-09) |
| Last updated: 2008-07-14 16:49 EET |
The baccalaureate examination in Romania has come to a close with final release on Wednesday of the response to complaints filed by students. However, the scandal is still making the big headlines in the newspapers. The press recalls that the admission rate was lower by 3.5 per cent, as compared to last year, with massive fraud reported not only by students, but also by teachers. In fact 268 candidates were eliminated from the exam as they were caught cheating or trying to copy the answers from various sources. Also, as a diagram issued by daily ADEVARUL shows, in 8 of the 43 administrative units in the country, the admission rate was over 90 per cent, while on the other hand there were counties where the admission rate is lower than 50 per cent.
The daily GANDUL interprets the results of the baccalaureate as evidence that students do no more believe in this exam , which however, they want to pass as this is a diploma opening the door to finding a job. It does not matter what the respective holder knows to do , how he understands the world and what happens around him , what matters is that he graduated a school and that he is the holder of a diploma. The daily ZIUA covers again the case of professor Gheorghe Radulescu , who made public the documents proving massive fraud and copying at the baccalaureate and the bad organisation of the session by the Education Ministry officials in charge. Professor Radulescu accuses education minister Christian Adomnitei and some of his co-workers of denigrating him in order to hide the fraud in the exam; the professor said he would take the case to court.
Finally, the daily GARDIANUL claims that Education Ministry officials refuse to admit there was fraud at the baccalaureate and continue to discredit those who dare complain and disclose the fraudulent activity. However, analysts admit there is a deep crisis in the Education sector, ongoing for 15 years: the irregularities reported at this baccalaureate session are only an effect of that crisis. The only strategy to come out of the crisis is the reform, of education, with the whole of society participating, especially parents and students. According to the same daily, an emergency solution could be the dismissal of the current leadership of the ministry and the formation of a crisis committee, if no other political solution is found.
GARDIANUL also writes that former education ministers claim that the organisation and running of this year’s baccalaureate was full of improvisation, resulting in fraud during the written tests, the elimination from the exam of twice as many students as compared to last year, as well as in massive collection of what euphemistically is called protocol money from the interested parents, in fact bribes to teachers.
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