Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb left the Chisinau General Division of Education, Youth and Sport after heading it for ten years. The local administration is to announce a contest to fill the vacancy, IPN reports.

Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said that in two weeks of the appointment of the Division’s head, a contest will be announced to choose the chiefs of district education divisions.

In the last meeting of officials of Chisinau service and divisions attended by Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb, she said she never thought that she will leave this post in such circumstances. She noted she regrets the illegalities committed in schools and kindergartens as regards alimentation, but reiterated that she is not involved in these.

Tatiana Nagnibeda -Tverdohleb also said that the division she headed has many responsibilities and voiced hope that decentralization will follow and each body will have narrower powers and the Chisinau General Division of Education, Youth and Sport will deal exclusively with education.