The public association “Moldova mea” considers the Ministry of Education is politicized and corrupted and destroys the future of children and Moldova’s statehood. In a news conference at IPN, the association’s chairman Fiodor Ghelici called on the President to deal first of all with the quality of education because complete degradation is witnessed now, especially in villages.
The activist said the Ministry of Education is a politicized institution that is managed by persons who have nothing to do with this field. This institution and the government itself do not aim to educate and train young people. The teachers were also politicized and these use the students in different events of a political character. Moreover, the teachers propagate hatred of the Russian language among students instead of promoting the patriotic values of the state, regardless of the ethnicity of students.
Fiodor Ghelici said the modern school differs a lot from the Soviet school, where the students knew the official language and the Russian language as well. He called on the Head of State to abandon the issues related to the electoral system and to orient himself to the education system. Even if it is a little late, the whole teaching staff should be replaced, but the pays of teachers should be increased. The Republic of Moldova should not copy the reforms implemented in this area by other states because this will result in complete failure.
In the same news conference, Sergey Mishin, a representative of the national minorities, said the authorities during the last few years have tried to limit the right of ethnic minorities to education. The number of Russian teaching institutions has halved and there are no Russian classes or teachers of Russian in most of the schools. But Russian is the language of communication between national minorities. As Russian groups are no longer formed in many of the higher education institutions, many young people go to study in Transnistria or abroad. “Consequently, we will ultimately not have Russian speaking specialists,” stated Sergey Mishin.
The representative of the national minorities said the Government and the Ministry of Education, by their acts and by the absence of well-thought-out policies, are trying to remove Russian from circulation, event at state institutions, including Parliament, which does not publish the information in Russian too. The people should know the official language, but the state does nothing for this to happen. The legislation stipulates that the state should provide free courses for studying the official language, but this is not done.
