Education bills were approved at a government meeting on Wednesday and will be sent to parliament for discussion and adoption as an emergency, Education Minister Ligia Deka said. Despite the opposition of students and parents, the law retained the rule that for 60% of places, secondary schools, in addition to ZNO, will be able to organize their own entrance competition with specialized tests. Ligia Deka claimed that this formula was developed “exactly after the feedback received from the education participants”.

At the end of the government meeting, Ligia Deka announced that the drafts of the Law on Pre-University Education and the Law on University Education had been adopted by the government after receiving all the conclusions and that they would be sent to the parliament for the adoption of an emergency procedure.

• “The project brought together the wishes and vision of society as a whole for education in the horizon of 2030, and the laws on education are combined with the reforms already included in the PNRR to bring us to the goals we have proposed.
• And here, very briefly, I can refer to the focus of the educational system on the student, the stimulation of the potential that each child has, and the accompanying of the potential from early education to maturity, to adult learning. We also wish to improve the quality and increase the level of functional literacy.
• We mean, of course, increasing equity, reducing school dropouts, everything related to desegregation and the inclusion of different children with different characteristics in schools, so that we can take advantage of this wonderful potential that Romanian children have, they have it” . , claimed Lygia Deka.

The option for secondary schools to hold a separate entrance exam for 60% of places, in addition to the national assessment, has been retained despite criticism. What Deka says

Despite the opposition of students and parents, the law retained the rule that for 60% of places, secondary schools, in addition to ZNO, will be able to organize their own entrance competition with specialized tests. Ligia Deka claimed that this formula was developed “exactly after the feedback received from the education participants”.

• “This formula, which is contained in the legislative package, is the formula that we came to precisely based on the feedback received from the subjects of education, if you remember, last summer at the public hearing, the proposed formula was 90% of the places cleared in the competition for profiles, where there was a competition and where the high school wanted, we came up with the formula of 60%.
• why It’s because if a child has a bad day and doesn’t pass an exam that would bring them a better match for the profile, they still have a chance, based on their grades in the national assessment, to apply for the appropriate profile at that secondary school and that’s it will still have a chance to be assigned there,” Deka said when asked why the provision was retained despite criticism.

She argued that it is a formula that “combines the need to match the profile with what you choose to do in the next four years of high school with the need to ensure fairness in the system”:

• “For the first time, a national assessment will be held, for everyone, after which those who wish will be able to go to the Olympiads, which are organized only where the competition was held, for those profiles and where the lyceum wants to organize such a competition. .”
• Deka noted that 60% of the places on the profiles where there was a competition will be open, and for the other 40% it will be possible to compete solely on the basis of grades from the external examination.

When asked how important the grade will be in the assessment and exam, Ligia Deka said that this detail will be established in the following methods.

What would the new exam for 8th grade students look like?

• The national assessment remains with the current formula – written tests in mathematics, Romanian language and literature and mother tongue
• An entrance exam has been introduced for secondary school profiles where there has been competition in recent years, if secondary schools want to remove these places through competition
• For those profiles they wish to submit to the competition, secondary schools may choose two composite samples per profile. For example, for science, they can choose chemistry and biology so that they can choose the ones suitable for that profile
• The competition can be held for 60% of the seats according to the target profiles, and 40% of the seats remain in the computerized distribution.
• Of this 40%, priority will be given to 10% for students with special educational needs or students of Roma nationality.
• The distribution of computers will be done after the national assessment and entrance exam for high school
• The subjects will be standardized, unique and developed by the National Center for Curriculum and Assessment according to the programs at the secondary school level with a degree of difficulty suitable for the competition, respectively, for selection rather than in the form of a final examination. which has a national rating