Doctor’s degree ‘based on the competition of universities’

On Friday yhe Minister of Education, Daniel Funeriu, stated in Cluj that during the following period the project of organizing the doctorate would be adopted by the government, so that the places for doctor’s degree would not be decided ‘by the Minister’s pen’. They would be distributed based on a competition between universities.

‘The places for doctor’s degree given to certain universities will no longer be decided by the minister’s pen, but they will be given based on the competition between universities.’

‘The best universities must have the most post-graduate students. The key-word for Ph.D. development in 2011-2012 is that the Ph. D. degree will be a professional experience based on research activity, in order to train young people for research, development and high- level jobs’, Daniel Funeriu said.

He requested universities not to commit the sin of considering Ph.D. degrees just an extension mainly based on the activity of classroom learning, ‘but a professional experience based on research.

Efforts to prevent fraud at national examination

Referring to the baccalaureate examination, the Minister of Education warned that no pupil would be able to cheat and said that the education system might be inspected as customs have.

‘We take special efforts to eliminate all the elements of foulness at national examinations.’

‘Last year drastic measures were taken to limit and to eliminate fraud’, the Minister of Education declared.

Daniel Funeriu added that due to such measures 12 percent pupils did not graduate in the first session and about 34 percent in the second examination session.

‘This year the measures will be even more decisive’, the Minister of Education said.

Translated by: Cătălina Virvescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University