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| PUBLIC DEBATE ON EDUCATION LAWS 14/01/2008 |
| (2008-01-14) |
| Last updated: 2008-01-15 12:43 EET |
On Monday, the Romanian Ministry of Education initiated national public debates on the new draft law package in the field of education. Mihaela Suciu, Ministry of Education’s spokesperson told us :
“These debates will enjoy the participation of representatives of town halls, local councils, the prefects’ offices, trade unions, NGOs, as well as parents, students, the mass media and any other civil society stakeholders. Everybody who has an interest in the matter will be able to express his/ her point of view and arguments during the debates. The arguments will be centralised and analysed by school inspectorates and sent to the Ministry of Education by February 18th. The education draft law is a perfectible document , assumed by all factors involved in its drafting and finalisation.”
The ministry’s proposals were officially opened for debate on December 17th last year. One of the most important changes concerns the structure of the compulsory pre-university education, which would start at 3 years of age and include 3 years of kindergarten, 5 years of primary school, of which one would be a preparatory one , and 5 years of secondary school.
Changes in the university education system refer to the new managerial mechanisms, encouraging high performance universities and opening the Romanian higher education system to European and international education.
The laws proposed by the Ministry of Education are already being criticised by trade unionists and parents alike. Catalin Croitoru, president of the National Education Federation, believes the ministry brought only a few changes to some older draft laws. Moreover, Croitoru says that some provisions are unclear and dysfunctional. He pointed out that the ministry’s intention of introducing compulsory education for children aged 3 is not possible, because thousand of kindergartens should first be built all across Romania to host all the children. . Also, closing down vocational schools is considered a mistake, given the severe lack of qualified work force in Romania nowadays. As regards higher education, representatives of several NGOs believe that university deans should be appointed following an interview and not by their colleagues, as current draft laws provide.
Last December, when the draft education laws were launched, Romanian President Traian Basescu criticised them, saying that they do not bring anything new and fresh. However, Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu had a different opinion, back then, claiming that these laws manage to place school at the core of the community, creating a legal framework for the transfer of authority, responsibility and resources to the local communities and education units.
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