Romanian students have been performing increasingly worse ininternational evaluations over the last few years, with theRomanian education system being outstripped by those in Bulgaria,Hungary, and Lithuania. Will the education system's performanceimprove after the hundredth modification of the education law?
Romania ranked 47th out of a total of 57 countries participatingin the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in2006, when the latest such assessment was made, with Romanianstudents faring worse than in 2001, when they ranked 34th out of 43participants.
Those who were involved in putting together the education lawsay the changes will contribute to improving students' performance,and, implicitly, to a better position in international rankings,while others say the law has its weak points, which do notencourage performance.
"Teachers will conduct more assessments in order to correctdeficiencies, with there being an assessment every school year. Theteaching staff can use 25% of the classes allocated by curriculumto remedy students' deficiencies," says Mircea Miclea, formerEducation Minister and chairman of the Presidential Commission foreducation, who was involved in putting together the new educationlaw.
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