The poor conditions in university dorms in Chisinau are the main reason why the students choose to live in rented accommodation. Over 60% of the respondents of a poll said they are not satisfied with the conditions in dorms, 45% don’t want to use the sanitary facilities there, while over 40% need more intimacy. Over 30% don’t want to live in dorms due to the restrictions imposed on them there, shows a poll conducted among members of the League of Students from Bessarabia.
In a news confernce hosted by IPN, Andrei Călugăreanu, a third-year student of the State Teacher Training University “Ion Creangă” of Chisinau and a member of the League of Students from Bessarabia, said there are respondents who want to live in rented accommodations as they don’t like the atmosphere in dorms. 9% of the respondents said that they could not obtain a place in the dorm as some of the universities don’t cope with the large number of students who come to Chisinau and need an accommodation place.
Andreea Negritu, a third-year student of the Moldova State University, stated that only 39% of the respondents are satisfied with the dorm accommodation or place distribution procedures. The rest are dissatisfied with the lack of transparency in the accommodation process, the absence of information about formalities, documents, procedures. 20% noted the problem of discrepancies between domes, while 18% highlighted the problem of corruption or cases of illegal distribution of places in dorms.
Nicoleta Gherman, vice president of the League of Students from Bessarabia, said that 79% of the students who stay in dorms would like these to be open permanently. This problem was discussed and was partially solved starting with the current academic year and most of the public universities in Chisinau made changes in their regulations. However, problems are yet encountered and the students continue to meet with impediments in this regard.
Some 70% of the respondents know that there are regulations concerning the functioning of student dorms of the university where they study, while 30% don’t know about such regulations. Out of those who know that the regulations exist, 60% said that they read them. The number of respondents who know them, but didn’t read them and the number of those who don’t know them stand at 40%. This is rather serious as it goes to the rights of students, said Ieronim Ciobanu, president of the League of Students from Bessarabia.
The poll was carried out in summer-autumn. It covered a sample of 1,300 persons most of whom are first-year students (38%), second-year-students (29%) and third-year students (21%). A part of them do not live in dorms.
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