The Ministry of Education and Research announced on Friday, November 7, that it launched the National Program for the systemic piloting of framework plans in state, private and denominational high school education, through which the directors of these high schools will be able to propose new study models and educational innovations.
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State, private or denominational high schools can enroll in the National Program until January 5, 2026. The condition is, however, that the respective units operate in the form of education with up-to-date attendance, including those with teaching in the languages of national minorities, classes with intensive or bilingual study, units that operate on the basis of government agreements, special high school education units and those that implement various educational alternatives, reports News.ro.
According to the Ministry of Education, the pilot interventions can be adopted and adapted for all the streams, profiles and specializations/professional qualifications existing within an educational unit or for a selected part of them, including a selected part of the classes with the same profile or the same specialization/professional qualification.
“We are taking an important step in the area of decentralization in pre-university education and I hope we have as many directors as possible who want to take this step, testing educational innovations and new curriculum models. We have new framework plans already approved, but we give schools the opportunity to innovate and make their offer more flexible, being part of this program. We need to enter the logic of the “school for children”, and this piloting is one of the ways we can give real meaning to the school, through a curricular architecture that responds to the particularities of the children it has and to have schools adapted to its world, through the flexibility that this piloting can offer”declares the Minister of Education and Research, Daniel David.
The program, which has a maximum duration of pilot interventions of a maximum of five years, aims to experiment with a new national curriculum model structured on equivalent horizontal options, which pursue the same goals of the high school education level, to support some mechanisms for testing, piloting and evaluating curricular interventions and piloting new models of decentralized educational management.
The Ministry of Education also specified that the minimum duration of the pilot is five years, and the deadline for enrollment in the program of the high schools that will be selected is January 15, 2026.
All proposals must respect the rights of students enrolled in the respective pilot units and the Student Status: access to education, assessment, transfer, participation in assessments and national exams, the Ministry of Education states.
