The Baccalaureate examination procedure in 2013 was more correct than the previous years. However, improvements are required as regards the involvement of the human factor in this process, Deputy Minister of Education Igor Grosu said in the program “Replica” on the TV channel Prime, IPN reports.

According to the deputy minister, the deviations this year showed where work is yet to be done. “We must make sure that the persons involved do their job. The most serious challenge was faced in this area. If the papers had appeared before 9am, it would have been the Ministry’s fault. But they were taken out of Baccalaureate centers after 9am, after it was said what part of the envelope must be cut,” stated Igor Grosu.

He considers that taking the exams on the computer would be a solution to avoid copying. But in the Moldovan schools, there are not enough computers. Also, cases of corruption related to the Baccalaureate exams have been reported this year too.

“Corruption persists. The previous years, when cases of corruption were identified, the head of the Baccalaureate center was banned from heading such a center for a five-year period. This year, the punishment is ban on holding the post of manager of an education institution for five years and this has an impact on the career,” said the deputy minister.

In the same program, director of the Resource Center for Human Rights (CReDO) Sergiu Ostaf shared the deputy minister’s opinion, recommending the Ministry to maximally reduce the human factor in the education process and to exclude the assessment duties from its tasks.

The Baccalaureate exams were sat by about 28,000 students between June 4 and June 21. More than 600 students were caught copying. The grades will be posed at the Baccalaureate centers on June 27-28. The papers will be also available scanned on www.bac.gov.md.