Minister Daniel David launched an alarm signal, describing the year 2025 as the “most dangerous” after the 1989 revolution, and appealed to sign a strategic pact for the future of education and research in Romania.
Daniel David wants a greater involvement of politics in saving education. Photo: Mediafax
On the occasion of the celebration of the International Professor Day, marked annually on October 5, Daniel David, the Minister of Education and Research, drew attention to a critical situation that Romania crosses. According to him, the year 2025 is “probably the most dangerous year for the country after the 1989 Revolution”, a marked period of political tensions, economic instability and external challenges.
“In Romania we are living a difficult year for education and for the Romanian society as a whole, the year 2025 being probably the most dangerous year for the country after the 1989 Revolution. There were difficult years for the country – both economically and politically -, but in 2025, the internal political and economic crises are strongly combined, against the background of a war on the border and of some hybrid attacks on the country and of the internal attacks. The world order. said Daniel David, quoted by Agerpres.
In this tense context, Daniel David proposes to sign a national pact for “the decade of education and research” (2026-2036), a strategic document meant to hire political factors in supporting the sustainable development of the two fundamental fields. The pact would include three essential directions:
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2. Institutional unit: Education and research should remain under the same central authority, in order to stimulate the coherent development of a knowledge -based society.
3. Alignment to international standards: policies implemented in these areas should reflect the best EU and OECD practices. In the case of deviations, they must be explained and publicly justified.
The minister also stated that, although he had to accept the application of fiscal-budgetary measures that affect education and research, he did so to protect the existing salaries and scholarships.
In the medium term, he argues, the objective is the elaboration of a fair salary system, starting from the average gross salary on the economy in the case of debuting teachers, in order that, by 2030, Romania will allocate 15% of the general consolidated budget for education and 1% of GDP for research.
“My concern is for the people of education to be good in a new educational system, not in the current system that generates levels of functional illiteracy that paralyze our country and which must be paradigmatically reformed in order not to become a failed civilization and a technological/scientific colony!” the minister stressed, expressing concern about the current direction of Romanian education.
