The graduates of secondary schools prefer to continue their studies at colleges and vocational schools rather than at lyceums. The head of the Chisinau General Division of Education, Youth and Sport Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb has told IPN that a cause for the lower number of applicants to be enrolled at lyceums is the results of the Baccalaureate exams, which were worse than the graduates expected.
Tatiana Tverdohleb said that under the admission regulations, the results as regards the applications submitted at lyceums, colleges and vocational schools are made public in mid-August, while the managers of education institutions will present the vacancies. The lyceums must have by at least two parallel grades.
“A higher number of high school graduates go to other education institutions rather than lyceums. This is due to the larger number of offers made by Romanian education institutions and to the rise in the number of budget-funded places at vocational schools and even colleges,” said the head of the General Division of Education, Youth and Sport.
According to the Ministry of Education, more than 11,800 applications were filed at the 42 colleges after the first admission stage. A new contest will be held on August 4-8 to fill the over 1,100 places that remained vacant after the first stage (711 based on secondary school certificates and 391 based on lyceum certificates). The largest number of budget-funded places in colleges was provided for secondary school graduates – 3,910 places or 82.7% of the total number of places.
