“I surely want the reforms in education to continue. But it’s hard to say if I see myself in a future Cabinet team or not,” acting Minister of Education Maia Sandu said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. She noted that it’s hard to give an answer owing to the general situation, which is a rather bad one, and to the growing risks that are related not only to abstract things, but also to the education sector, IPN reports.

“We will no more receive budget support on behalf of the international community. Therefore, the allocations for supporting reforms in sectors, including education, are also affected. In our case, it is not yet known if we receive financial resources from the European Commission for implementing the reform in technical vocational education. We do not know what will happen to the money from the World Bank. Rather bad conditions for continuing reforms are created,” stated the minister.

Maia Sandu noted that she is for continuing the reforms, but the team and political class should enjoy credibility so as to be able to do reforms. Asked how much political will a minister forming part of a minority coalition can show, the minister said in the long run, things cannot work like this, but in the short term a particular results were achieved. “We can discuss if our sector holds interest from political viewpoint. Some can say that education is not interesting. In general, there should be coherent policy within the whole government and reforms must be done at several levels,” she said.

Maia Sandu also said that it was rather hard to fight corruption in education. As regards the Baccalaureate exams, the biggest victory is that there are students who started to appreciate correctness and to understand what they should lay emphasis on. However, there are children who admit that they cannot pass the Baccalaureate exam and at least do not take them and do not try to cheat in them.