Report

This practical guide starts from the idea that young people’s participation is essential to a fair democracy. It examines the barriers (weak civic education, low trust in institutions, the sense that voting…

Part of the Romanian Education Monitor project, the report profiles the members of the education committees in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate: biographies, asset and interest declarations, any legal proceedings,…

The report reviews what Romania learned from three school years disrupted by the pandemic: digital equipment, teacher training, the legal framework including the new education law, and county school inspectorates’ plans. It…

The report examines the national remedial education programme “School after school”, funded with roughly €30 million through POCU 2014–2020, and finds it was implemented with little transparency and that officials gave inconsistent…

The analysis finds that few county school inspectorates set up excellence centres after the November 2020 ministerial order, and that two years without school competitions leave no clear way to select pupils.…

The analysis compares the parties’ 2021–2024 government programmes for pre-university education. No party guarantees a fixed share of GDP for education, and those promising gradual increases do not explain what they would…

A guide for monitors in the Clean Schools project, which tracks corruption in how public funds for pre-university education are allocated, accessed and spent, and promotes transparent and adequate school funding. In…