Some 60% of the textbooks for primary and secondary schools and lyceums will be replaced towards 2025, said Minister of Education and Research Anatolie Topală. According to him, tender contests to purchase 43 new textbook titles have been announced. The national program to teach the Romanian language to minorities, which was recently approved by the Government, will help the other-language students and other categories of the population to study Romanian and this will facilitate the social integration of minorities, IPN reports.

The minister said that the primary and secondary school and lyceum students until 2025 will start to study based on new textbooks that will meet the school curriculum that was amended in 2018. The first part of textbooks - 43 new titles – we reach the schools until the start of the 2023-2024 school year. The other 67 titles will be printed until September 2024. Another 15 titles will be delivered to lyceums until 2025.

“Given that the curriculum was modified, we need to bring the content of textbooks into compliance with the national curriculum,” Minister of Education and Research Anatolie Topală stated in the program “Public Space” on Radio Moldova.

The minister explained the importance of the national program to teach the Romanian language to national minorities, including the adult population, for 2023-2025. He said that owing to the new program, representatives of the national minorities will benefit from new opportunities for learning Romanian.

“It goes to activities to teach the Romanian language in kindergartens and schools and to activities intended for grownups. We also aim to design a concept of multilingual education so that some of the subjects at institutions that teach in other languages than Romanian are taught in the Romanian language, while the rest are taught in the mother tongue and the students know better the Romanian language and also their native language. This will offer them more opportunities at professional and social levels,” stated Anatolie Topală.

Under the national program to teach the Romanian language to national minorities, about 6,000 teachers and managers of educational institutions will be taught the Romanian language. Another 13,000 grownups from different professional categories (justice sector, healthcare, economy, arts, central and local public administration), including adult Ukrainian refugees, can attend Romanian language courses. Also, about 4,000 other language speaking students, among who are children of Ukrainian refugees admitted to Moldovan educational institutions, will take part in different educational programs in the Romanian language.