The educational system has a deficit of about 2,000 people. Only a fourth of pedagogy graduates choose jobs the system. Doubling the number of young people who choose to teach will be a priority for the Ministry of Education in the next few years. The goal was announced by Education Minister Dan Perciun in a live stream.

According to Dan Perciun, doubling the number of young people who choose to do pedagogy will be achieved through increased stipends, additional facilities for the best students, and also attracting high school graduates to choose pedagogy through certain instruments and a better targeted benefits package. According to him, today young specialists are offered an allowance of 200,000 lei, but it is not well-targeted, at the same time certain regional discrepancies regarding the provision of teaching staff are not taken into account. Also, the process of re-specialization of teaching staff will be facilitated and subsidized.

In the future, the Ministry wants to create a network of mentors at the national level, around 1000 people, to support teachers in their work. At the same time, teachers should have increased access to continuous training. About 35% of teaching staff currently do not have a teaching degree, meaning they do not qualify for supplements related to the teaching degree.

The Ministry will strive to improve the study conditions in each school. Minister Perciun says that there are a large number of educational institutions that do not have sanitary facilities. The Ministry allocated about 25 million lei this year to set up sanitary facilities.

Also, investments in laboratories are needed. Digitization, the introduction of an electronic school catalog, and the exclusion of paper grades, so that schools are not forced to have both, is also an objective. As for the illegal collection of payments in schools, the minister believes that there must be legal mechanisms so that parents who want to contribute to the well-being of the school can do so.

The Ministry also wants to increase the democratic, participatory culture in the school. This includes the introduction of a participatory budget, so that a school can use a certain part of its budget as it wants, the minister added.