Ministry of Education should take action against private university

A group of 35 intellectuals has joined the discussion about Romania's largest private university Spiru Haret. In a petition to the Minister of Education Ecaterina Andronescu they call on her to declare degrees obtained for non-accredited courses invalid. The daily România Liberă writes: "This university substitute with no less than thirty faculties and fifty disciplines handed out degrees like confetti, making the whole process of study the subject of ridicule. ... The business practices of Spiru Haret might have turned into a scandal discussed all over Europe, and prompted the minister of education to withdraw the institution's accreditation. The embarassing situation whereby a flood of people are storming the European market equipped with worthless degrees could easily have led to drastic measures being taken by the EU, for example to the non-recognition of the degrees conferred by the country's further education institutions."

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