Page 2

The European Union member states with the highest percentage of school drop-out in 2016 were Malta (19.6 percent), Spain (19 percent) and Romania (18.5 percent), while Croatia (2.8 percent), Lithuania (4.8 percent) and Slovenia (4.9 percent) are at the opposite poll, according to the data released on Friday by Eurostat. Moreover, Eurostat data revealed that […]

Premier Mihai Tudose asked on Thursday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to address the “special situation” in Ukraine, where Romanian schools have been shut down. “I kindly ask for your involvement (…) in the special situation in Ukraine. It really is a very special situation. We have a huge national issue on our hands with […]

Liberals announced on Wednesday that they are asking for the Education Minister Liviu Pop’s resignation, through a simple motion on education which is going to be lodged to the Senate. Among the reasons for which it requests Minister Pop’s resignation, PNL refers to the lack of the manuals for the 5th grade, the lack of […]

Minister of Education Liviu Pop told a press conference on Monday that 10 percent of the management positions with the Ministry of National Education and education inspectorates will be cut in 30 days at the most. According to the minister, other management contracts of officials who failed to fulfill their terms will also be terminated […]

President Klaus Iohannis on Friday attended a reunion in Sibiu of the class of 1997 graduates of the “Samuel von Brukenthal” Collegiate High School whom he taught and led as form master. “A reunion full of emotions today in Sibiu with my former students of the “Samuel von Brukenthal” Collegiate High School, 20 years after […]

The examinations for assessing linguistic and digital skills at the Baccalaureate high school graduation examination next year will be held in the first half of the second semestre, while the written tests will take place at the end of the 12th grade, Education Minister Liviu Pop announced on Wednesday. “We bring a decluttering of subject […]

The U.S. Embassy in Romania, together with the American Councils for International Education and the Ministry of Education in Romania invites Romanian high school students to participate in the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) 2018-2019. The Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program is a United States Department of State-sponsored program for high school students that provides […]

Minister of National Education Liviu Pop (photo) on Monday evening told the TVR national television station, in regard to the removal of several school inspectors, that they failed to observe their management contract. “They, too, the school inspectors, carry their activity based on a contract. There are 28 items on this contract they must observe. […]

Minister of National Education Liviu Pop (photo) on Monday evening told the TVR national television station, in regard to the removal of several school inspectors, that they failed to observe their management contract. “They, too, the school inspectors, carry their activity based on a contract. There are 28 items on this contract they must observe. […]

The network of Romanian Language lecturer’s offices is expanding in academic year 2017-2018 to include in four foreign universities, according to the Ministry of National Education (MEN). They will be located at the Vatican Pontifical Oriental Institute, the University of Ankara (Turkey), the Azerbaijan University of Philology and the University of Vilnius (Lithuania). Thus, the […]