The Minister of Education, Daniel David, explained, in a statement transmitted on Monday, what are the education changes included in the package for which the Bolojan Government has assumed responsibility in Parliament. He also announced other measures he will adopt.
Minister of Education, Daniel David Photo: Mediafax
Among them, the organization of the contest for the position of school principals, until the end of 2025, but also the reorganization of the inspectorates, measures required by the actors in the education system. He explained what impact will have the two -hour enlargement of the teaching norm and what are the categories for which the teaching norm does not increase. He also mentioned what categories of school scholarships remain, pointing out that “the merit will be deserved”, reminiscent that the technological scholarships will continue to be granted.
Call to solidarity on the day when 3,000 teachers protested
Minister Daniel David sent to his colleagues in the education system that “We live a crisis situation that none of us wanted ”of which “We can only go out together by solidarity and with rational and decent actions“We do it for us, the minister added, but especially for the future of our children.
“No matter what you are told, we must know, in a serious way, that the country is in crisis, and if we do not take these efficiency measures at the country level and others that will follow, from September we have difficulties with paying salaries/pensions/scholarships in all sectors ”, Daniel David warned. The reform is actually a chance for education to be changed “An educational paradigm on the wrong times ” and be built “A healthier one.”
“Indeed, the prime minister said that this government is one of sacrifice, which is also reiterated by me for this mandate in education-research. But if it is still sacrifice, then it is worth it! We must also give up in education-research to the old paradigms with hidden, non-performing and inequitable mechanisms ”, the minister also transmitted, assuring that the system is not destroyed. The message comes on the day when about 3,000 teachers from all over the country faced the nightmare temperatures and protested in the Parliament Park, dissatisfied with the measures announced.
The measures that have dissatisfied so much teachers, students and students are adopted in a context of rationality and decency, Daniel David said. In the short term, in education and research “We do not give people out and we do not lower salaries,” In the medium term the starting point for the debutant teacher/assistant Univ. It will be the average gross salary on the economy and the salary equivalence of the CSII/CSI will be ensured with conf.prof. Univ., And in the long term, the condition of allocation of 1% of GDP for research and 15% of the general consolidated budget (on expenses) for education will no longer be prolonged, the minister said.
About increasing the didactic norm
The increase of the weekly teaching norm by 2 hours will be done from free hours. “We have over 30,000 didactic norms in the system that are not attached to the degree/viability/continuity, so no work contracts will not be stopped. No one will lose their jobs and we will treat each specific situation, where appropriate, in the interest of the teacher/student and the education system“, The minister said.
The increase of the working norm in the direct activity with the children (the didactic norm – the letter A, art. 207 of Law 198/2023) is made on average from 3.6 to 4 hours of 8 daily hours, “”It grows, on average, 24 minutes daily! And this also places us below the European average of the didactic norm ”, David pointed out. This increase is temporary, valid for a study cycle (4 years), to analyze and impact, and teachers with seniority and performance will be able to deduce during the working time of 8 hours (BF letters, art. 207 of Law 198/2023). “The activities related to” leadership “, the national exams (national and baccalaureate evaluation) and the preparation for the Olympics remain as before, not included in the norm, and will be paid separately”noted the minister.
I have hours to pay the hour. The degree exam follows its course
The Minister of Education also stated that, and in the conndations of the 2 -hour growth of the didactic norm, out of the more than 30,000 free teaching rules remain for the hourly payment, “But, over time, as many of these must be removed transparently to the title contest (which is currently being held as planned) ””.
Pay by time in the pre -university system must be defined rationally and decently, the minister said, because “Currently it does not relate to all the time of work and has a value too much compared to the time of the basic norm (including compared to the university and, at times, health).”. “No one is obliged to do so, and whoever wants to, must know that its value is a correct one and as much as the field now allows ”, added Danid.
Department of chair, according to the size of the educational unit
Degree the management positions will have to go, depending on the size of the unit and the management position, up to 50%, the minister announced. “I think that anyone in this category can have at least 2 hours of teaching activities per day, in order not to lose contact with children and the teaching act! Currently, about 70% of those in management positions, with an average of 64% (but with the salary), they take their payment with time anyway.”said Daniel David.
There will be a discussion on the professionalization of management positions. “We will have to discuss which model we want in the country, and from the school year 2026 – 2027 to implement it”, The minister announced.
Another important announcement made is the one that, at the end of 2025, will start the contest for the position of management.
“I will start the competitions for the directors of school units and we will reorganize the inspectorates, so that, from 2026 – 2027, we start with a new model. It is part of the vision and, with the help of education professionals, we will implement it ”, David added.
“I do not think it is a major problem to have 1 – 2 banks more in some classes.”
The minister also transmitted what will happen to the number of children in the classroom. The new minimum/maximum limits for the number of children in a class are in other European practices, and these limits are similar to what I had in the country between 2011 – 2020, the minister said, so that “Basically, I do not think it is a major problem to have 1 – 2 banks more in some classes, considering the existing difficulties.”
On the other hand, the “unsustainable limits” brought in 2023 have created many teaching norms and many classes that also strike the school infrastructure, the minister pointed out. “Yes, discounts on the number of children in the classroom, where there are cases of children with special educational requirements, remain valid, including minorities and the other conditions specified in the law. And the reduction of these minimum/maximum limits must remain a desire, designed, but within realistic limits and with psycho -pedagogical implications, as infrastructure increases and developing“Added David.
Fewer director positions
The higher threshold for the status of legal personality will not change anything in terms of school unit and its orientation to the needs of teachers and students, the minister said, detailing that neither the employment contracts nor the place of educational activities will be changed. “The school becomes formal to one with legal personality, only disappears the position of director, but the person remains in the system. The regulations related to the number of school units per UAT remain valid”is the specification.
“If I did not intervene now I believe, honestly, that the school could not be saved by itself.”
The scholarships in the pre -university system “They are normalized to avoid the distortions of recent years, in which the school often became a notes factory for money ”, It is another clarification. “If I did not intervene now, especially in the area of merit scholarships, I think, honestly, seeing some reactions in the system, that the school could no longer be saved by itself. In recent years I have brought to school the “ethos of money” through “bursiada”, and here you do not have a partner. If I continued it for a while and I did not intervene now, I could not stop it, destroying the “ethos of education”, which tells us that in a free and mandatory education, children must come to school, seeing the school with pleasure, as a social success.”, He expressed his minister’s opinion hard on the scholarships.
In the context, David said what the scholarships will be granted below:
1. Children who need to be helped to be able to come to school will be helped! Indeed, through social scholarships, children who need to be supported throughout the year in order to attend school (including minor mothers).
2. The merit will be deserved! Here the merit scholarships are exceptional situations in a free and mandatory education system and will cover a maximum of 15% of a class, with note 9 as a limit.
3. Technological scholarships in professional training programs will continue as before.
4. The excellence of the Olympians will be honored by prizes: they remain unchanged as typology, but with slightly increased values. For example, an international mention will have the monthly value, for 12 months, of a merit scholarship, and the first and III prizes, obtained at international level, are awarded in the country with values between 4,000 – 2,000 EUR (being able to cover many more monthly merit scholars for at least one year). Finally, the Olympians are eligible for the other categories of scholarships – social and merit – and retain their advantages when enrolling in high school and college. Therefore, for a voluntary approach, the financial-institutional support is one that I consider adequate, under financial crisis.
What happens to university scholarships
The fund for the scholarships granted to the students will be higher than in the academic year 2022-2023, but below the current level. Universities will instead be able to support larger scholarships from their own funds. They will not be affected by the reform of the doctoral students.
“Now, in the crisis, we cannot keep up with the increases, maybe well -intentioned, but completely unsustainable from 2023 – 2024/2024 – 2025 and we cannot cover them, as most practices in the world are, except for the studies (we do not stop, however, the universities that want/allow them to cover them all year). But we will seek complementary ways to support students, including by discussions with students’ organizations. In fact, the measure is a temporary one, for a 3 -year study cycle, following a better financing mechanism (eg: because the scholarship is unimported, the reference cannot be the minimum gross salary, but, as it has now proposed, the minimum net salary). Finally, attention, doctoral students with scholarship are not affected in any way, they have a continuous research component in their activities“, The minister said.
Towards the end of his message, the Minister of Education launched his colleagues an invitation. “Let us implement together these rational and decent mechanisms in order to have a quality and dynamic education,” the minister transmitted them, insisting that “Running by norms and scholarships as goals itself removes us from quality education and blocks its anchoring in today’s dynamics.”
