Romania's school-age population in 2020 was over 4.844 million people, making up 25.2% of the country's total resident population, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) reported on Monday, ahead of October 5, World Teachers' Day.In the school/academic year 2020-2021 the school-age population was 3.494 million children, pupils and students. Out of the total school population, 49.8% were male children, pupils and students and 73% were studying in urban areas."Almost half of the school-age population was found in primary and secondary schools (45.5%), and about a third in nursery and kindergartens (17.8% and 15%, respectively). Most of the school-age population (94.7%) was in public schools, with the remaining 5.3% in private schools," according to an INS press release.By regions, most of the school-age population in the school/academic year 2020-2021 was found in Nord-Est (601,100 people) and Bucharest-Ilfov (517,600 people).Most of the schools operational in 2020-2021 were mainly primary and secondary schools (57.4%), followed by high schools (21.0%), and nurseries and kindergartens (16.9%).According to INS data, there were 235,600 teachers in the same school/academic year. "The average student-teacher ratio was 15 to one. Female teachers were a majority both in the pre-university education and the entire education system," according to INS.In 2020, 28.4% of all households in Romania had children: 16.1% - one child; 9.7% - two children; 1.9% - three children; 0.7% - four children and more. Most households with more than four children were recorded in Nord-Est.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
