In Romania, against the background of the Covid-19
\npandemic, online schooling has brought about several problems. In some cases,
\nthe necessary equipment for online classes has not been purchased, and in
\nothers the infrastructure for online teaching is still being worked on. There
\nare also teachers who refuse to use the internet, not only for lack of devices
\nor internet connection, as it usually happens in rural areas. They say they
\ndo not want to use the platforms that
\nwould collect personal data, and those who already teach online are faced with
\nmany technical issues.<\/p>\n
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Teachers in Romania must learn to teach online, Prime
\nMinister Ludovic Orban has stressed again, as there are teachers who do not
\nwant to hold their classes in this way. <\/p>\n
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Ludovic Orban: All summer we organized courses aimed at
\nimproving teachers’ digital skills. We will carry on with this approach, and
\nteachers need to get used to this way of teaching. It is difficult to predict how
\nlong the pandemic will last and when a vaccine will be discovered. It is clear
\nthat education will take place in keeping with one of the three scenarios: with
\nchildren physically attending classes, in a mixed, hybrid system and online,
\nif a school is part of what we called the red scenario.<\/p>\n
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Due to the pandemic, the Education Law has been
\namended and provides that preschool, school, pre-university and university
\neducation can be done online during a state of emergency or siege. As the
\nlegislation does not include onlcine courses during the state of alert, in
\nwhich Romania has been since mid-May, the head of the Executive has not ruled
\nout, in recent days, a new amendment to the Education Law. Ludovic Orban has
\nstated that, in addition to supporting the learning process, there will be ‘lessons
\non national television, as it happened under the partnership in place during
\nthe state of emergency, and subsequently until the end of the school year.<\/p>\n
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Since the start of the new school year, on September
\n14, dozens of schools have left the green scenario, the one in which all children
\ngo to school, and moved to the yellow
\none, which entails both physical school attendance and online courses, and even
\nto the red one, which is exclusively online teaching. If we look at the
\nofficial figures, more than 300 schools in Romania should be online, and more
\nthan 4400 should function in the hybrid system. The remaining 12.500 educational
\nunits have organized their courses in the traditional way, with all the
\nnecessary health protection rules in place. <\/p>\n
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Less than two weeks after the start of the new school
\nyear, due to the local elections that will take place on September 27th, almost
\nthe entire education network will work exclusively online, for three days,
\ngiven that most of the nearly 19,000 polling stations will be organized in
\nthese units. (M. Ignatescu)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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