The 20-hour weekly classroom workload, which currently applies in Romania, is at the European minimum level and this year we need to stabilise education and work in several areas in order to increase its quality, Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said.
He responded in this way when asked about teachers demanding a return to the standard 18-hour classroom workload per week, otherwise threatening a general strike.
"Yes, from my pot of view, this thing is not possible, The 20-hour classroom workload, which is currently in Romania, is at the European minimum level. In Germany, the teaching workload is 24 hours. And we must be realistic when we set some expectations. That measure was a general correction measure. What we need to do this year is to stabilise education, to allocate all the necessary resources. And knowing that we cannot substantially increase budgets from one year to the next, this is the reality, regardless of what Government comes and regardless of the coalition to come, because we have some constraints, we need to work in some areas where we can boost the quality of education," PM Ilie Bolojan said on Monday evening at Digi 24 private television station.
He explained that education doesn't mean only financial resources.
"It means having the financial resources which the country can provide, but we must see how to use these resources, so that there is not just an area of spending, but also to mean an increase of the quality of education, to mean also an adaptation of the Romanian education to the economic reality, to mean a better quality of the teachers, a traceability of graduates," Bolojan said.
He added that performance bonuses for universities could be considered this year.
"Think about it, it is abnormal to fund, for example, a faculty with the same amount if none of its graduates work in the area they studied, compared with a faculty where, I do not know, 90 percent of graduates work in the respective area. This means that the one which performs should benefit not only from a per capita amount, but also from a performance bonus. And this is something we can do this year," PM Bolojan said.
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