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Teodorescu, Cristian
5 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
University woos students without A-levels
The private university Apollonia in the north Romanian city of Iaşi has announced that it will also accept students without A levels for its fee-paying courses. The university says it is doing this in reaction to the poor A-level results this year. In his blog on web portal Voxpublica, Cristian Teodorescu says the idea is absurd: "So you can become a student and have until the second year of study to submit your A-level certificate. If you don't manage to do this you will of course have paid the fees for these two years for nothing. ... Yet if the university allows students to enrol without A-levels why not take this reform idea to its logical conclusion? You could become a fee-paying student while still in the 9th year of school, of course with the proviso that you must go on attending school, so that at the Apollonia you could do your A-levels and your degree in dentistry or communications both at the same time and then enrol to do a doctorate, at the same university of course."
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More from the press review on the subject » Upbringing / Education, » Romania
Romania's print media in decline
In the past two years several leading Romanian dailies have discontinued their print editions and are now only available online. This trend will continue, predicts writer Cristian Teodorescu in his blog on the Voxpublica portal: "Early mornings on the Bucharest subway almost everyone grabs a free newspaper, and in the evening they take another free paper. They pay only for tabloids, and much lower down on the list, sports magazines. But even the tabloids don't have great circulation figures. My theory is that as well as the disappearance of newsstands the decline in circulation is also the result of almost two million inhabitants having left the country. And a substantial proportion of the active population that remains reads the news only online. If this process continues the current print newspapers will only survive until next year's election campaign."
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More from the press review on the subject » Print media, » Online media, » Media economy, » Romania
Romanian counter-report is dangerous
The Romanian president Traian Băsescu finds EU Commission's progress report "hard but fair", however he criticises it as "imbalanced". The Bucharest government therefore plans to write its own report in the hope that the EU Commission will then revise its progress report. A dangerous idea, the blog Voxpublica warns: "Just imagine if the EU states were to take the counter-report seriously, rather than the Commission's. That would set a dangerous precedent that discredits the EU Commission. Traian Băsescu has tried to make it clear that the counter-report is bound up with Romania's wish to join the Schengen area [next year]. We'll force our way in with a counterattack, you see! That's a bad idea because it means we're accusing the Commission and the Union of having hidden intentions. … Hopefully Traian Băsescu will realise that if he puts his idea into practice Romania could earn the reputation of being a country that tries to discredit the Union's work."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » EU Policy, » Domestic Policy, » Europe, » Romania
Ionescu between France and Romania
This year will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Eugène Ionesco, the French-Romanian writer of absurd theatre. The daily Cotidianul comments on the insistance of Ionescu's daughter Marie-France Ionesco that Ionesco is French, but no bit Romanian: "It's true that Eugène Ionesco detested his father, because he was violent and uncouth. Nevertheless his father did all he could to allow his son to finish school and attend a Romanian university so that the young Ionescu could become a French teacher. It seems absurd that his daughter must be reminded that Eugène Ionesco also published in Romanian. And it also seems absurd to have to remind Mrs Ionesco that her father returned to France in 1938 as a Romanian scholarship student, and several years later as a Romanian citizen he served as cultural attaché for the government of Antonesco [Romanian military dictator] in Vichy."
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More from the press review on the subject » Stage, » France, » Romania
A breath of fresh air has floated through Cannes
Even the "oldies" are impressed by Cristian Mungius's triumph in Cannes! For years there has been bitter rivalry in the Romanian film scene between a new generation of filmmakers who, like Mungiu, deal with the legacy of communism and an older generation that produces government-funded historical films that bear a marked resemblance with the propaganda films of the past. Cristian Teodorescu was therefore understandably surprised to see the old guard applauding their younger colleague at Cannes. "'This is a great success for the Romanian film industry' comment persons who only a few hours before the award-giving ceremony didn't think Cristian Mungiu had a chance of even winning the award for best director - because he's Romanian... I have no idea what's got into the old director Sergiu Nicolaescu, who all of a sudden is heaping praise on his young colleague. Only recently he said not one of the directors of the new generation was worth a bean. ... The filmmaker Mungiu is of little consequence in the alchemy of our patriotic arrogance. For the older generation only yesterday's opinions count. As far as they're concerned it was the Romanian film industry - or in other words them, the old luminaries - that won at Cannes."
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More from the press review on the subject » Film, » Eastern Europe, » Romania
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