The Ministry of Education has about 120 normative documents that must be implemented over the next few years in order to adjust the curriculum to the realities. The authorities do not exclude that more amendments may be proposed the next years to the Education Code, which was adopted by Parliament in the final reading. In the program “Place for dialogue” on Radio Moldova station, Deputy Minister of Education Loretta Handrabura called on the teachers and students to read the new Education Code as it contains explanations to many existing questions, IPN reports.
The deputy minister said the contemporary students must know the fact that admission at universities will be based only on the Baccalaureate diploma, not yet on the college diploma. There was introduced the mentorship service for young specialists, who cannot have the same workload at a university department as the specialists with a length of service of over 20 years. Thus, they will have a reduced workload and will be guided by a mentor. The mentors will have a salary bonus for experience transfer, a stimulatory social package, etc.
Loretta Handrabura underlined that working groups of experts were set up to prepare the revision of the curriculum, in accordance with the practice of other states. The curriculum will be reviewed once in five years. “I hope that in this process, we will achieve the objective of reviewing the curriculum. But the teachers started to struggle for more hours and we now face the problem of the large number of mandatory subjects. We are the country with the largest number of compulsory subjects. Under the Education Code, some of these subjects will be replaced with optional ones, which will develop the abilities of students in college or lyceum already,” she stated.
The new Education Code envisions the creation of a national School Inspectorate, which will be responsible for the assessment and accreditation of teachers. The Agency for Vocational Education Assessment will assess all the institutions that provide training courses for persons throughout life, while the Schools Inspectorate will center only on the pre-university stage and will have benchmark education quality standards.
Loretta Handrabura also said that the graduates who studied according to the Bologna system, but do not have a master’s degree will be unable to teach at lyceums and universities. This does not refer to specialists who studied at the university during five years. The persons who are not involved in research activities and who do not have a doctor’s degree will be unable to teach all their life as the universities not only train specialists continuously, but also aim to stimulate research and innovation.
