The salary in education will rise gradually and in 2025 will be by 30% higher than the average official salary. During four years, all the education institutions will have high-speed Internet connection, while the number of budget-funded places in universities will be doubled until 2025. Such promises were made by representatives of the Electoral Bloc of the Communists and the Socialists (EBCS) in the field of education, IPN reports.

In a news conference, Socialist MP Adrian Lebedinschi said the number of students and teachers has declined, while the reforms of the previous years didn’t produce results. Preschool education covers only 89.7% of the children aged between three and six and the places in kindergartens are insufficient. Moreover, in some of the villages there are no kindergartens, while in towns these are crowded. The quality of general education leaves to be desired, while vocational education is not correlated with demand on the labor market.

Socialist MP Nichita Țurcan said they will determine the necessary number of kindergarten places in each settlement and will approve the offering of annual assistance to families with children attending general education institutions on September 1. All the first-ninth graders will eat gratis at school. Dual education will be broadly implemented in vocational education institutions.

The EBCS promises to open branches of prestigious foreign universities based on a number of state universities and to increase the number of budget-funded places in state education institutions. It also pledges to approve a new formula of financing for early education institutions, to supply the institutions with computing equipment and connect them to the Internet and to provide the general education institution with laboratory equipment for physics, chemistry, biology, robotics and informatics.

Among the priorities is also the connection of schools to water supply and sewage systems. In the field of sport, tracks for cyclists will be built in large towns, table tennis (ping-pong) tables will be set up and polyvalent halls for mini-football, handball, basketball and volleyball will be constructed.