Education in Romania

From my son’s maths book…

by Craig Turp May 6, 2011 Bucharest

  Translation: ‘A sector of the Nicolae Dobrin Stadium in Pitesti has 269 seats. During a match between Steaua and FC Arges, Steaua supporters vandalised 119 seats. How many were left intact?‘

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Flowers corrupt; absolute flowers corrupt absolutely

by Craig Turp February 17, 2011 Romania

 Worrying developments in Romania yesterday, after it emerged that the government was planning to issue a guide to pupils that tells them ‘giving teachers gifts such as flowers is an act of masked corruption.’ How horribly sad is that? Handing flowers to teachers on the first and last day of term (as well as Martisor [...]

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The leaves of Ottom, and bilingual kids

by Craig Turp November 1, 2010 Bucharest

  Three or four years ago, when number one son’s class started learning English at (his then) kindergarden, we overlooked – for the first few weeks – the fact that he was being taught English by a woman who had an accent thicker than Ion Iliescu. Like Iliescu, her English was in fact excellent – [...]

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Strike! Why we’re right behind Romania’s teachers

by Craig Turp March 23, 2010 Bucharest

 We have in the recent past written at some length about what we think of Romania’s education system (or, rather, about the tiny part of it we have any experience of), and to save any of you from reading that long post again, our thoughts are basically this: we think we get a good deal. [...]

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Romanian Schools: First Semester Report

by Craig Turp January 29, 2010 Bucharest

 With number one son today celebrating the last day of his first semester at school, we present – for the benefit of nobody – our first impressions of the Romanian education system (or at least, our impressions of the school our son attends). As our regular reader – a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales – [...]

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Romania takes a small step towards evolving into a modern society

by Craig Turp February 12, 2009 Romania

 Common sense prevails. Evenimentul Zilei splashes this morning with news that Romanian schools will once again be teaching kids about evolution. Three years ago the country’s education ministry took a giant leap back into the Middle Ages and removed all mention of Darwin from school books. Since then children have been taught (often by men [...]

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