News about Education
The sixth phase (since 2008) of the “Strengthening the Vocational Education System in Moldova” (CONSEPT 6) project, with a budget of over 2 million euros, has begun. The focus will be on linking school subjects (mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology) to the specific professions taught at vocational schools and the practical needs of future specialists.
Moldova is proposing mandatory 42-day military training for men under the age of 55.
Georgian authorities have selected a company to provide school uniforms for hundreds of thousands of students across the country following the reinstatement of a mandatory dress code in public schools.
Moldova’s €80 million higher education investment program will serve as a key tool for modernizing the country’s university system. The project is being implemented with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and combines EIB loans, grants from the Neighborhood Investment Platform, and national funding through the Reform and Growth Facility.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been named the world’s best university by the influential QS World University Rankings 2027. Imperial College London and Stanford University tied for second place.
The deans of the law and economics faculties at Comrat State University, as well as the university’s rector, are also under suspicion.
The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) and the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA) will conduct joint training and educational activities to improve the financial skills of entrepreneurs, including small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, and the self-employed. The heads of the two institutions—Anca Dragu and Vadim Codreanu—signed a corresponding Memorandum of Cooperation.
Representatives of the “Spiru Haret” Federation of Education Workers’ Unions and the Federation of Free Education Workers’ Unions are holding protests on June 17 to express their dissatisfaction with the provisions of the new wage bill.
Starting June 25, residents of the capital will be able to use the swimming pool at the State University of Moldova, which has reopened after two years of extensive renovations. The sports complex at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports, located in the very center of Chisinau, behind the government building, will be open not only to students and professional athletes but also to the general public.
The Chisinau City Hall announces that the 2026 Graduation Ball will take place in the capital on Friday. The event is dedicated to young people who are completing an important milestone in their lives: the completion of their secondary education.
The proportion of young people leaving the education system early in the European Union continues to decline. According to Eurostat, in 2025, 9.1% of EU residents aged 18 to 24 had left education or vocational training early.
Indian authorities were forced to take extraordinary measures after exam questions were leaked on the Telegram messaging app. The government restricted access to the platform until June 22 in order to administer the medical entrance exam again.
Moldova is studying European best practices in the digital transformation of education as part of the “Acceleratorul Digital” project. Representatives from 12 pilot schools, the Ministry of Education and Research, UNICEF, and the National Center for Digital Innovation in Education “Clasa Viitorului” visited Zagreb, where they learned about Croatia’s approaches to implementing digital technologies in schools.
Dan Perchun, Minister of Education and Research, responded to a petition from graduates who expressed dissatisfaction with the increased difficulty of the math section of the bachelor’s degree exam held on June 12.
The Chisinau City Hall reports that 8,490 children have already been enrolled in first grade at the capital’s public schools for the 2026–2027 school year.
Under new rules for monitoring substance use among minors, drug testing of children under 16 is permitted only with the written consent of their parents.
“The claim that people are the Republic of Moldova’s most important resource is nothing more than a cliché; we all understand this perfectly well. That is why we must continue to invest in our children’s education,” said Dan Perchun, Minister of Education and Research, during the 4th PAS Party Congress.
In 2026, Russian will rank 11th in terms of prevalence worldwide. It is used as a primary language in daily life by 210 million people.
The Technical University of Moldova (TUM) has implemented its own artificial intelligence model that operates on the principle of a ChatGPT-style assistant. As a result, the university now has access to its own model, hosted on local servers, and to its own code development tool.
In 2017, when Viorica Cerbusca spoke in Moldova about startups and their founders, she still had to explain to people that the “startup ecosystem” had nothing to do with the environment. There were virtually no investors, few partners, and organizations trying to build infrastructure for innovative entrepreneurship were forced to constantly lobby to convince people of the value of investing in ideas and technology.
