Romanian universities must be modernised

Following a journalists' conference on university policy in Paris, the daily newspaper Gândul argues that although Romania has introduced bachelor and master degree courses at its universities, it hasn't solved the problems: "It is useless to undertake structural changes but in essence leave everything as before. This is the bad news: we have brought the same deficiencies that have been plaguing us for 18 years into the new structure: antediluvian courses and subjects, chalk-and-blackboard teaching methods from the Dark Ages, labs from the times of communism and, worse still, a relationship between students and professors that is still based on the authoritarian model of the all-knowing teacher and the subservient student. Moreover, corruption and moral decline [are pervasive], with professors who sell good grades for oral sex and students who come to university expecting exam results to pop out of Father Christmas's sack like gifts."

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