About 6,000 students from the municipality of Chisinau will sit Baccalaureate exams this year. The head of the Chisinau General Division of Education, Youth and Sport Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb Monday said that surveillance cameras have been already installed in the examination centers, IPN reports.
Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said in this connection that the measures taken last year, including the checks performed by masked police officers and the video surveillance, make the students more hostile towards the education system. “I think surveillance should be ensured by overseers, not cameras. If need be, we will increase the number of supervisors. This stress and constraint do no good,” said the mayor.
Earlier, at the mayor’s insistence, the municipality sent a message to the Education Ministry, asking that the Baccalaureate exams should be held in classrooms, in the institutions were the candidates study, and that the surveillance cameras should be removed.
The Baccalaureate examination session 2013 starts on June 4. The students will take exams in halls, gyms and festivity halls, where there will be fixed video cameras. A number of 100 Baccalaureate centers will be set up in the country, 30 of which in the municipality of Chisinau.
