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| EDUCATION LAWS UNDER PUBLIC DEBATE 18/12/2007 |
| (2007-12-18) |
| Last updated: 2007-12-19 14:39 EET |
Education minister Cristian Adomnitei has mentioned some of the principles underlying the draft laws.
“Respecting and promoting the children's interest, as a priority and a basic principle, as well as equality of opportunities, ensuring education quality, keeping the education system free from any political influence, continuity, lack of discrimination, decentralisation and permanent education.”
The minister added that the new laws allow for financial decentralisation, shift emphasis on students, impose training standards for teachers and provide more openeness and autonomy for universities. The mandatory undergraduate education structure has been changed. According to this structure, official education must begin at the age of 3 and end at 16. The child is thus supposed to go to kindergarten between the age of 3 and 6, then pursue primary school classes for 5 years and go to secondary school for 5 years.
The new prospects in higher education relate to strengthened autonomy, a change in management mechanisms, using incentives for competitive universities, and the openness of the higher education system towards its European and international counterparts.
Things will also change as regards the teaching positions contest to be held at education institutions. Cristian Adomnitei voiced confidence that the new laws would bring about the long-awaited changes, but president Traian Basescu does not share his view. Basescu criticised the minister's opinions, saying they fail to breathe new life into the Romanian education system. Traian Basescu:
“If one reads the new laws, one feels like reading the Education Law of 1995 or its 35 amendments made in the last 12 years. The projects proposed by the education ministry still put decision making in the hands of the ministry and even the government.”
Basescu has called for a rigorous drafting of education laws, based on the intention that the laws should not change soon. Prime minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu has a different view. He said that the law succeeds in placing school in the limelight, at the core of the community. Tariceanu added that the legal framework allows for the transfer of authority, of responsibility and resources to local communities and education institutions. He voiced, however, his criticism regarding the private lessons issue. Calin Popescu Tariceanu:
“As long as this parallel education system goes on functioning in Romania, the situation is far from being perfect. If 50% of students in a class are obliged to have private lessons, I believe this is not the students' problem, but rather the teachers' problem.”
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