Students will get awards with slight delays

The students will receive the awards for May with small delays. The bookkeepers of some of the education institutions say they started already to pay them. Other universities and colleges do not have the money yet, but the directors say they agreed with the Ministry of Finance that the money will be transferred in several days, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Until now, we did not have problems in paying the awards. The students got them by the 15th date of every month. Now, it is May 21 and we were provided with no official explanation about the reasons why the money is late,” said Gabriel Palade, director of the Financial-Banking College “A. Diordita”. The Informatics College is in a similar situation. “We do not have arrears for April. The Ministry of Finance promised that the money for May will be transferred during the next two days,” the institution’s director Ludmila Bolboceanu said. Dumitru Danu, director of the Ecological College, said that the awards for May in their institution will be paid in June, as usual. “We just paid the awards for April,” he said. “There was a delay of several days, but from May 20 the students started to receive the scholarships,” said Dina Ianovici, deputy director of education at the Technological College. Constantin Taranovic, president of the College of Microelectronics and Computing Equipment, said that they did not have problems. “The students whose studies are financed from the state budget get the awards on time,” Taranovic said. Igor Enicov, first pro-rector of the State University of Moldova (USM), said that their students received the awards already. “The consequences of the acts of vandalism will be removed from the money planned in the state budget for the needs of the education institutions, whose representatives took part in the April 7 protests,” Moldova’s outgoing president Vladimir Voronin said, when asked where they money needed to reconstruct the devastated buildings of the Parliament and the Presidential Office will be taken from.