The Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” (PPPDA) promises to design a country program titled “Educated Moldovan” that will be a common and modern view on the public education system and national culture. It also pledges to reform the school education system by stimulating performance, ensuring the supply of schools with hardware and access to platforms for online learning, increasing the salaries of teachers and employees of the system, IPN reports.
In a news conference held in front of the National Library, the party’s leader Andrei Năstase said the good things that were initiated by the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” on the street and continued in Parliament should be finished. “For the purpose, we need a pro-European parliamentary majority that is impossible without the PPPDA, as many people say. The PPPDA is the guarantee of a pro-European majority, of a government for the people, not against them,” noted the politician.
MP Maria Ciobanu said that 30 years ago, education started to be restructured, but a strategy was absent. Education was only declared a national priority. The education reform was every time restarted by the new ministers of education, the system being politicized, but insufficiently financed. “The merger of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture plunged the system into a crisis and this crisis resulted in an accentuated decline in quality and efficiency,” stated the MP.
According to Maria Ciobanu, the party aims to decongest the curriculum for a number of subjects and to reduce the bureaucratized aspects. They will divide the current Ministry into the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture as these are two important entities and will initiate the reformation of the university system by correct, real, professional accreditation, by merging the teacher training faculties, departments and institutions into a properly outfitted national teacher training academy with appropriate budget allocations and with particular concessions for students and teaching staff.
Those from the PPPDA promise to ensure the stable financing of education and culture the speeding for which will represent about 19% of the public budget. The Ministry of Culture will be allocated at least 5% of the GDP for conserving the cultural heritage and promoting the national and cultural identity by rehabilitating historical monuments, including solders’ cemeteries, etc.
