Socialist MP Vlad Batrancea, deputy chairman of the Parliament’s commission on education, demanded that the conditions of organizing the Baccalaureate exams should be adjusted to the realities in Moldova. In a news conference on November 9, the MP criticized a report compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Education and Research on the violations committed in the organization of the Baccalaureate session, IPN reports.
Vlad Batrancea noted that the Agency for Curriculum and Assessment has only nine employees, but the budget was planned for 43 salary earners. The Agency’s administration didn’t take measures to fill the vacancies.
According to the MP, the technical services for preparing the Baccalaureate exams during many years have been provided by one business entity. No public tender contests were held, as the law provides.
“The number of students who take the Baccalaureate exams decreases annually, but the costs associated with the organization of these exams increase,” stated the MP.
Vlad Batrancea also said that the authors of the Baccalaureate test papers were paid for four months instead of three. University teachers were involved in drawing up the tests. As a result, the tasks were too difficult and the students could not cope with all of them. “It is November now. The preparations for the new session start on January 1. If the situation does not change, the children will suffer again,” he stated.
In hearings staged by the Parliament’s commission on culture, education, youth, sport and mass media on November 8, there was presented the Ministry of Culture, Education and Research’s report on the violations committed by the Agency for Curriculum and Assessment. The commission’s chairman Vladimir Hotineanu said that after the Financial Inspectorate and the National Anticorruption Center render a report, the MPs will be able to submit recommendations and proposals for changing the situation.
