Authorities plan to increase number of places in dual education by 10%

24.03.2023 13:08
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In technical and vocational education, the number of places for students involved in dual education is to be annually raised by 10%. The students in the dual education system, which combines apprenticeships in a company and vocational education at school, benefit from salary and also from scholarship, Minister of Education and Research Anatolie Topală stated in a news conference, IPN reports.

According to the minister, the costs incurred by the business entities involved in this program are compensated. The official encouraged the national companies to join in the approach to increase interest in dual education. “We all want the educational system to directly contribute to economic growth by training highly-qualified specialists, to help form a society resilient to the modern challenges and to also promote the European values,” said Anatolie Topală.

He also said that studies of a high quality mean primarily good teachers, relevant content and modern infrastructure. This way, 13 teacher training universities and colleges are undergoing broad transformation and modernization. The Ministry allocated 289 million lei for 20 projects to improve infrastructure and to change the content taught at these institutions.

The 13 institutions will be outfitted with 52 laboratories and research centers, 67 lecture and multifunctional halls, 18 teaching and counseling centers. It is also planned to introduce new programs of study, such as “Information Security”, “Data Science”, and “Artificial Intelligence”. The investments in teacher training colleges and universes will continue in the future and a new contest of investment projects totaling about 210 million lei will be announced.

The Ministry is working on the e-Admission system for higher education, which will enable to submit documents to be admitted to universities online. In the future, the diplomas will be issued in electronic form.

Recently, the Cabinet approved the development strategy “Education- 2030” and during the next few weeks is to also endorse amendments to the Education Code.