01.19.2015

The IT&C sector has the potential to grow at an even higher rate in Romania, which will not happen unless the educational system adjusts to the requirements of the market, says Andreea Stanescu, more

01.08.2015

More than 70% of the monthly consumption expenditures of a Romanian household go to food, utilities and fuel. Conversely, the least money, 0.5%, is spent on education. more

03.12.2014

With teachers starting out with a 800 lei (EUR180) net salary per month, 50% the average wage in Romania, half of the 14-year-old school kids are unable to score above the passing grade in Math and more

06.05.2013

Furniture industry companies hired 4,700 people last year, but the market is suffering from a lack of skills so they have to invest in training the people they hire, says the Romanian Furniture more

05.24.2013

Romanian schools turn out graduates with a quality education or else the major companies would not have continued to invest in Romania, said Sorin Mindrutescu, general manager of Oracle Romania, which more

12.20.2012

Romania’s Government has postponed for a year, until end-2013, the granting of social coupons for the education of preschoolers in low income families and the granting of EUR500 for each newborn. more

12.12.2012

Romania’s Government will postpone until January 1, 2014 the application of a measure whereby allocations to education will increase to at least 6% of the gross domestic product. more

10.23.2012

Romania’s Education Ministry will hold an auction in December to buy IT&C equipment and services for an estimated 148.6 million lei (EUR32.5 million), VAT included, in order to connect 2,446 schools more

10.02.2012

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday rejected with 153 to 67 votes and ten abstentions the simple motion on education submitted by the opposition Democratic Liberal Party last week. more

09.21.2012

Romania’s opposition Democratic Liberal Party will submit a simple motion on education in the Chamber of Deputies next week, democrat liberal Sulfina Barbu told Mediafax Friday. more

05.28.2012

The Romanian Education Ministry will hold an auction in July to buy IT&C equipment and services needed to connect schools to the Internet. more

05.07.2012

Romania’s Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta on Sunday evening pulled his nomination of Corina Dumitrescu for education minister and appointed social democrat senator Ioan Mang instead. more

02.08.2012

Romanian Parliament committees on Wednesday endorsed proposed Education Minister Catalin Baba. more

01.18.2012

About 300 Romanian education unionists will picked Friday the headquarters of the Education Ministry, the Federation of Free Unions in Education (FSLI) said Wednesday. more

12.07.2011

The Romanian Parliament budget and finance committees on Wednesday approved the budget of the Education Ministry, of 19.9 billion lei (EUR4.57 billion), or 3.64% of the gross domestic product. more

10.19.2011

The Romanian education system does not answer labor market demands and there is a huge gap between employers’ requirements and graduates’ knowledge, SAP Romania general manager Valentin Tomsa said more

08.29.2011

The rights and obligations of students have been set down for the first time by Romania's Education Ministry in the Student's Statute, which provides the right to free education and to be informed of more

08.10.2011

Romania's Government will extend the deadline by which it must provide at least 6% of the GDP to the education system by two years, until 2014, arguing that it would entail an additional budgetary more

07.05.2011

The low pass rate of the high-school graduation exam does not have to do with the political class alone, but also with the role models promoted by the Romanian society in transition, which portrayed more

07.05.2011

The flaws of the education system cost Romania several percentage points of its gross domestic product and the economy lacks sufficient professional managers who are really necessary in a time when more

05.17.2011

Romania's Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday tacitly adopted a proposal to eliminate the obligation to teach Romanian history and geography in the languages of national minorities. more

05.17.2011

Romanian education union federation FEN has sent the European Commission a complaint against the Government, which it accuses of serious violations of human rights and fundamental liberties. more

04.18.2011

Romania’s Education Ministry wants all pre-university education units to obtain sanitary authorization in the next four years, according to the Government’s fiscal strategy for 2012-2014 obtained more