Policy brief

Lowering the voting age at 16 years old has just recently entered the national debate in Romania, with a new bill entering in the parliamentary debate in 2022.

The first study since EU accession to map private tutoring in Romania finds that about one in three children receives paid tutoring, most often in mathematics, Romanian and foreign languages, and that…

The brief examines why local authorities so often fail to pay the mandatory school scholarships: only 180 of 3,182 local authorities fully comply with the law. It combines a statistical analysis of…

Part of the Clean Schools campaign, the brief argues that pre-university education is underfunded and proposes publishing school budgets, monitoring mechanisms involving parents and communities, and directing extra funds to basic needs…