Romanian Education

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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