After the liberalized visa regime with the EU started to be applied, the People’s Party of the Republic of Moldova (PPRM) sensitized the people and the current government to the necessity of adopting immediate and attractive measures for the young generation. The chairman of the PPRM Alexandru Oleinic said the call made several months ago – to work out a program of measures to ensure the employment of the young people, as in the European countries – becomes more topical given the latest legislative acts discussed and adopted by Parliament, IPN reports.

Alexandru Oleinic considers the current government, in the four years in power, was unable to identify solutions to the problems faced in the education system of Moldova. “At the end of mandate, before the parliamentary elections, the legislature adopts purely electoral and populist laws to raise the salaries of teachers and to institute private scholarships and the new Education Code. This is done in a move to flatter the voters and earn again their trust,” he stated.

According to the politician, the measures to remedy the situation in education, proposed by the current government both in the Education Code and within legislative initiatives submitted by MPs of the government coalition, do not offer rapid solutions to the main problem faced in education – the quality of studies. The PPRM is for including the provision that the state guarantees and promises the teachers and schools the status of national priority in the Education Code. The level of financing in this case should be appropriate.

The PPRM considers that in order to reduce joblessness among young people, the people who want to have higher education must be offered access to interest-free loans that can be repaid when they get a job. For the young people to have a well-paid job after they complete the studies, public-private partnerships must be promoted and the programs of study must be adjusted to the developments on the labor market. The companies that will finance the studies should be exempted from paying the income tax in the amount of the tuition, while those that will accept students for internships and young specialists for work should be exempted from paying the income tax in the amount of the costs incurred for training young specialists.