An Outlook On The Romanian Education System Reform: Some Considerations

Reform measures to be applied to the Romanian education system represent not only a necessity, but, more often than not, a false problem, an outcome of political changing games, a scapegoat for the irrational spending of the public budget and the lack of administrative skill of the co-ordination and decision forums from the Ministry in charge. The expression that best describes the evolution of the education system in Romania for more than two decades from the change in regime from December 1989 is, undoubtedly, ‘half measure’. Despite good intentions and experiments to make the Romanian education system competitive on a world scale, our system, especially the Higher Education one, does not enjoy international recognition since none of our Universities is listed among the first 500 Higher Education institutions in the world. We do take pride in our results at international Olympiads and in our graduatesespecially in IT and Medical Sciences- who are employed by Western European and Northern American companies and institutions, but we also display schools that appear from the 19th century and wages only somewhat higher than the minimum wage that determine the best of graduates to avoid careers in teaching. The authors of this study will try to analyse the latest provisions of the law of education, without pretending to be able to cover the entire problem at hand.