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The funding is intended for  the development of a school progress module tailored to the national curriculum and will also support Kinderpedia piloting in public schools and kindergartens over the next 6 months. Innovators for Children…

The 2019-2020 school year has started in Romania today, with almost 3 million pupils ( 2,824,594) and around 200,000 teachers in the system. Pupils and pre-school kids will have 35 weeks of classes this year, divided in two semesters:…

The 3rd edition of Kids Land Fest opens up for kids and their parents on 7th of 8th of September in Bazilescu Park of Bucharest. Kids Land Fest brings to the Bucharest public creative shopping ideas as well as the all-known and cheered…

A Romanian-born 12-year-old schoolgirl living in UK, Timeea Petrescu, has been recently accepted to Mensa, the high IQ society, as she obtained and IQ score of 162. Timeea Petrescu was born in Craiova, southern Romania, but she is now…

The manele performance at the Gopo 2019 Awards gala has been criticised by some local artists, while the organizers retorted that artists should not be treated with prejudices. Manele is a mixture of "oriental" Romanian folk and…

Tel Drum company has won another contract in Teleorman County, although it is insolvent: to upgrade a school in Zimnicea for RON 7.2 million. The contract for ‘design and execution of works for upgrading and endowment of School no. 2,…

Reforms in the education system have been marked by a mood called ‘mimed reform’ and characterized by legislative chaos, President Klaus Iohannis said on Monday, at the opening of the pre-university school year. The head of state also…

The National Council for Combating Discrimination has fined a school in Romania on Friday for discriminating a pupil suffering of Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which is a first for Romania. It is ”I.L. Caragiale”…

The Police from Harghita opened an investigation on Tuesday after a ninth grade student has locked himself in the school’s toilet and threatened to set the institution on fire. Investigators found he was carrying six knives in his bag. The…

by Andreea Marinas If you surf the WWW long enough, it’s impossible not to come across various statistics more or less true. This one seems to be coming from the EU most-trusted institutions and ‘spokepublications’ and probably aims at…