higher education

More than one quarter of the Romanian immigrants in the OECD countries worked as non-qualified workers in 2015/2016 and half of those with higher education were overqualified for their actual jobs, a report completed by OECD upon the…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide EUR 25 million to increase the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of teaching, learning and research at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), a leading university in…

The Government is to adopt on Friday the draft decision on the gross minimum wage. Although it has promised to increase the minimum wage for employees with seniority of 15 years and for those with higher education to the level of RON 2,350,…

Almost 40 percent of the youngsters under 35 years old in Romania want to start their own business (39%), says the Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report  (AGER) 2018, conducted by GfK and presented on Tuesday in Bucharest. On the opposite…

The national unemployment rate, calculated by the National Employment Agency, was of 3.81% at the end of March, down by 0.13 percentage points as compared to the previous month and below the level recorded at the end of the same month in…

The Centre for Political Ideas Studies has conducted a survey among #resist protesters to identify their profile. 78% of them have higher education and 90% say they are not members of any political party, they are generally are on the right…

Almost half of Romanians with higher education say they do not have Internet for home computers because they do not consider it useful or interesting. Moreover, more than half of college graduates say that the lack of skills prevents them…

Romanian employees were asked by eJobs which are the most frightening things about their jobs, and 42% of them believe that ‘a psychopathic boss’ is the most frightening thing at the workplace and the reason for looking for a new job. 29%…

“Romania’s economy specializes in uncompetitive areas in the European area, generate low added value and labour is cheap and unskilled. This produces a significant economic impact both on short-term (reflected in the purchasing power of the…

A recent study on the higher education in Romania during 2011-2015 by the Court of Accounts points to a catastrophic situation of the domestic universities and the quality of their systems. The study shows that although there are more…