Educational software for Moldovan schools

The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology in cooperation with Microsoft and Cisco are launching educational information technology projects in Moldova. In a news conference on Monday, Valentin Crudu, the head of the Education Ministry’s Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education Division, said the memorandum signed with the two companies this May allows developing the educational system by implementing international technologies. The projects are designed to furnish new educational management technologies and help the education institution managers by offering different electronic management programs, in the context of e-Government. Valentin Crudu said the educational projects envision the involvement of the teachers, especially of informatics, in formulating educational programs and of students of upper grades in drawing up different international projects. “All the Moldovan primary and secondary schools have been connected to the Internet owing to the support provided by the ICT Ministry. In the recent past, the Ministry of Education has outfitted computer rooms in 2,283 schools,” Valentin Crudu said. Thanks to the support of Sibeco, electronic physics, chemistry, biology, math and other kinds of lessons are taught in over 100 schools. Sanda Foamete, academic and educational audience manager of Microsoft Romania, has administered the Partnership for Education Project during seven years. “It is a program based on three important pillars: innovatory schools, innovatory teachers and innovatory students. In an innovatory school with Internet connection, the innovatory teachers can create fascinating lessons to attract the innovatory students,” she said. Microsoft organizes national and international contests and the International Forum of Innovatory teachers. Moldova is the 116th country with which Microsoft signed a memorandum. Grigore Vasilache, of the Cisco Academy of the Financial-Banking College, said Cisco during two years has trained 24 persons to teach the IT essentials course that prepares the student to manage the personal computer and deal with the printer, network, etc. Every year, the Ministry of Excitation asks for 25-27 million lei to implement information technology.