Ombudsman Anatolie Munteanu recommends Minister of Education Maia Sandu to make changes to the university admission regulations as they limit the rights of students who studied in another language than the official one to apply to a Romanian faculty. According to a communiqué of the Center for Human Rights, the right to guaranteed education is thus infringed, IPN reports.

“Moldova, being a party to the Convention against Discrimination in Education, pledged to provide, develop and implement national policies aimed at promoting equality of chances and treatment in education by methods adapted to the national circumstances and traditions, and especially to make higher education accessible to everyone, depending on everyone’s abilities, in equal conditions,” Anatolie Munteanu says in a letter to Maia Sandu.

According to some reports, the admission commissions refuse to accept the documents of Russian applicants to a Romanian faculty. Even if the high school graduates know the official language, the commission members tell them to submit the documents to a faculty where the disciplines are taught in Russian. They make reference to the regulations concerning the organization and holding of admission to bachelor’s degree studies at Moldovan universities, approved by the Ministry of Education.