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| WHAT DOES THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR BRING? 15/09/2008 |
| (2008-09-15) |
| Last updated: 2008-09-16 15:31 EET |
In Romania, 3 million and a half pupils in primary and secondary education started school on the 15th of September. It has become somewhat of a tradition that many school are, however, not yet ready to welcome their pupils. Out of Romania's 23,000 schools, 9,000 are in different rehabilitation stages, while a third have not yet received their sanitary approvals. The same is valid for nursery schools, also confronted with an acute lack of space and facilities to receive more children. The education minister, Cristian Adomnitei believes otherwise:
“The investments made in repairing schools across the country have started to show their positive results in many places, while in other places these effects will soon start to be seen. Other piece of good news for this school year is that each pupil in the first two years of high school and art and vocational schools will have his or her own computer at home. We have also purchased this year 1800 minibuses to take pupils from home to school.”
On the other hand, the Romanian education system is facing a shortage of staff. Unhappy with the low salaries, teachers leave the system and take up different professions or go abroad. Solutions are a matter of improvisation: grouping pupils together in authorised schools, hiring back retired teachers and substitute teachers. The Education Ministry has also announced methodological changes relating to the organisation of the baccalaureate exam and tests for being admitted into high school. The ministry's spokeswoman, Mihaela Suciu:
“The methodology is focused on the security of the exams. All exam topics have been given a new status, that of confidential documents which means that from the moment they are drafted until they become public, no one has the right to reveal them. The evaluation of papers will be made by the class teacher together with a teacher from the evaluation centre which has no connection with the school.”
Apart from the cosmetic surgery performed by the authorities in the last hundred meters, the press writes that the education system is deteriorating from one year to another and that the Romanian school system has gone below the world level of mediocrity. A recent survey conducted by the International association for evaluating school efficiency puts Romania on the 36th place out of the 45 countries the study looked at.
According to the survey, the main causes of this decline are the heavy school curriculum and the rudimentary teaching methods. The study also shows that the performance of Romanian pupils is below the international average in terms of reading and comprehension of a text and of exact sciences.
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