Teachers and educators "are not required to attend university "

Ecaterina Andronescu said that educators and teachers are not conditioned by the completion of university courses over the next six years in order to keep their jobs.

Unions of pre-university education are asking to be cleared the provision of an Emergency Ordinance at the end of the year which would force educators and teachers to complete his studies at the University level, to be able to practice.

Ecaterina Andronescu, Minister of Education at the time of the adoption of this provision in the Government, attempted to elucidate the problem.

"The teachers and educators are not required to attend the university over the next six years to keep their jobs," said for Radio Romania's former Minister of Education, Ecaterina Andronescu.

She said that without changes to the Education Law at the end of last year, the Emergency Ordinance, the 40,000 teachers or educators would not have been paid, since the functions were not provided for in the law.

"They are teachers or educators, they can remain until retiring in this capacity. But they can pass to the next stage as teachers for preschool education or teachers for primary education if they want to become teachers.

In the current education law does not exist in these functions. Now we have in the system of teacher and teacher 40,000, "said Ecaterina Andronescu.

Trade unions demand explanations

Article 6 of the Emergency Ordinance 92 in 2012 stipulates that "educators and teachers employed in national education system have the right to continue the work of the teachers in pre-school education, primary education, that they occupy, provided undergraduate and graduate studies in the job profile in more than six years after the entry into force of this Emergency Ordinance '.

In this situation, the trade union federations in the pre-university education system, are asking explanations and necessary corrections the Ministry of Education.

"I'm not a believer in it, of obliging teachers and educators to complete their studies, because there seems to be a normal thing at the moment. We have teachers and educators of the highest quality, those who have graduated from the pedagogical high schools, those that were true of such nursery teaching staff, "says Marius Nistor , Chairman of the Executive Board of the Federation of trade unions of Education" Spiru Haret ".

It seems normal to me as a teacher or a student who still has a year or two years until retirement to supplement their studies out, so that, together with the respective diploma, graduation, to receive education in hand and retirement decision. What it serves?

"If it goes on as presented by Ecaterina Andronescu, so there is no requirement to give the opportunity to those who wish to complete their studies, to do so without unnecessary pressure on this category of staff is alright. There are things that the Ministry should correct them, "said Marius Nistor , the Executive President of the Federation of trade unions in education" Spiru Haret ".



Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura