Education Trade Unions ask for education law delay
The Free Trade Unions in Education states that the new law is an experiment leading to irreparable destruction of the education system.
Articol de Cristina Iliescu, 10 Februarie 2011, 09:32
Education unions warn against the new education law that came into force on Wednesday, because it would create chaos in the system, since the lack of implementation standards.
The Trade Union Federation "Spiru Haret" of pre-university education asserts that many teachers risk losing their jobs, because of the raised standards, and many institutions cannot function without a new methodology to replace the current one.
Education trade unions demand the delay of education law’s coming into force for September 1st.
Marius Nistor, chief executive of the "Spiru Haret" Free Trade Unions in Education says that the Wednesday coming into force will close down educational institutions, lay off a lot of personnel and retire others during the school year.
"For example, the right of a first degree teacher, with a 25 year seniority, to have 16 hour instead of an 18 hour program, if this right is voided starting todaym approximately 8,000 people will have to be laid off from the system", said Marius Nistor.
The system’s solidity ‘will not be affected’, the authorities said
University principals, as well as the as the "Alma Mater" Trade Union have also recently requested the education minister the delay of the coming into force.
"University principals have asked for the delay of the coming into force for September, with regard to some provisions, especially the ones referring to human resources, because it changes our entire scheduling for teachers".
"If they PhD leaders retire now, in February, there’s the risk that there will not be anyone left to coordinate PhDs. There aren’t any young people", Anton Hadar said.
"The enforcement date of the law cannot be negotiated and the stability of the education system will not be affected taking into account that a number of articles will have been applied by September 1", the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Tudorel Urian, stated.
"The provisions of the law are not up for discussion. Therefore, Law No. 1/2011 will come into effect starting today. Moreover, the ministry has adopted transitory measures that would not affect the stability of the system".
"According to the same law, some provisions will come into effect gradually", Tudorel Urian stated.
Translated by: Tudor Ciocănel
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University
