The Minister of Education has officially announced new last-minute changes that will have an impact on all schools in Romania, they are necessary for the millions of students to have access to a quality educational act, and for this the government agency that deals with it is being reorganized of her insurance.
The Minister of Education talks below about some of the measures he has taken, and which must be taken so that this agency can really ensure that the schools in Romania offer a quality educational act for all the students who attend their courses daily .
"Unfortunately, it is not a secret for anyone that in Romanian education we have serious problems amplified by the recent health crisis which has put the existing shortcomings under the spotlight. Most of them are related to quality, or when you have a national agency for quality assurance in education, part of the responsibility belongs to it.
I do not waive any form of responsibility because ARACIP is an institution under the coordination of the ministry, since its establishment in 2005, by emergency ordinance number 75. Then both agencies for quality assurance in pre-university education were established, ARACIP , as well as in the student one, ARACIS.
Among its obligations, ARACIP had the periodic evaluation for Romanian education, and only almost a quarter were evaluated, but the agency has only 9 employees. ... There is a need for a change, a consolidation of ARACIP's operational activity, an adaptation to the realities in Romania.
The current size is totally inappropriate, they had a staffing scheme of only 20 people, they were not fully occupied. After that, through a ministerial order, they expanded to 40, and now we need at least 75 people employed in several departments, a special one for quality assurance, one for accreditation, and a special one for checking and approving international schools.
We went with the idea of ensuring all the necessary skills, which is why the governing body of ARACIP is a council made up of 15 people. At the moment we are reorganizing. ARACIP is coordinated by the ministry, just like in other countries in the European Union where agencies of this kind are coordinated by similar ministries."
