Education Procurement in Romania
Numbers
More informationNumber of schools K-12 | Number of teachers K-12 | Number of students K-12 | Number of students per computer K-12 |
7.200[1] | 243.662[2] | 4.774.952[3] | 2,6[4] |
Sources:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Romani (2012)
[2] Eurostat, Education and Training statistics (2018)
[3] Eurostat, Education and Training statistics (2017)
[4] www.compareyourcountry.org/pisa-digital (2012)
Legislation of Education
More informationLaw of National Education
http://keszei.chem.elte.hu/Bologna/Romania_Law_of_National_Education.pdf
Digital agenda of romania 2020
https://www.gov.ro/en/government/cabinet-meeting/national-strategy-on-the-digital-agenda-for-romania-2020
National Reforms in School Education EURYDICE/Romania
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/national-reforms-school-education-56_en
Programmes, strategies etc. related to education, digital education
Organisations
More informationOrganization responsible for education | Role of the organization | Website |
Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports |
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www.edu.ro |
National Council for Education Reform | ||
County School Inspectorates |
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National Centre for Curriculum and Evaluation of Pre-tertiary Education | ||
National Service for Assessment and Evaluation | ||
National Centre for TVET Development | www.tvet.ro | |
National Commission for Pre-tertiary Education Evaluation and Accreditation | ||
National Council for Financing Public Pre-tertiary Education | ||
National Centre for Recognition and Equivalence of Diplomas | https://cnred.edu.ro/en | |
Local public administration authorities |
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Source: European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Romania Overview: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/romania_en |
Funding of education
More informationType of schools | Source of funds |
Public pre-tertiary education institutions | Financed from local budgets (town, commune and in the case of special schools county). There are certain costs that are covered from the central budget through the County School
Inspectorates. |
Private schools | Parents have to pay tuition fees determined by the Administration Council of each school.
Schools are governed by their Administration Councils, the head teachers and the deputy's head teachers. They cooperate in the decision-making process with the Teachers’ Council, the Parents’ Committee and local public administrative authorities. The Administration Council are set up by the following members:
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Funding includes three different types of funding:
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Source: European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Romania Overview: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/romania_en |
Public expenditure on education ISCED (2011) (million EUR)
More informationYear | Primary education | Lower secondary education | Upper secondary education | Total |
2012 | 626,0 | 649,4 | 765,3 | 2040,7 |
2013 | 723,3 | 760,7 | 857,1 | 2341,1 |
2014 | 645,3 | 965,7 | 956,3 | 2567,3 |
2015 | 663,0 | 1037,0 | 1010,5 | 2710,6 |
2016 | 633,2 | 1013,4 | 967,7 | 2614,3 |
Source: Eurostat (online data codes: educ_uoe_fine01) |
Expenditure on educational institutions ISCED (2011) (Million EUR)
More informationYear | Expenditure | Primary education | Lower secondary education | Upper secondary education | Total |
2012 | Current expenditure | 607,2 | 609,3 | 712,0 | 1 928,5 |
Capital expenditure | 24,1 | 48,0 | 31,2 | 103,3 | |
Total | 631,3 | 657,4 | 743,2 | 2 031,9 | |
Share of capital expenditure (%) | 3,8 | 7,3 | 4,2 | 5,1 | |
2013 | Current expenditure | 699,5 | 723,3 | 795,6 | 2 218,4 |
Capital expenditure | 24,6 | 36,0 | 30,5 | 91,1 | |
Total | 724,1 | 759,3 | 826,2 | 2 309,6 | |
Share of capital expenditure (%) | 3,4 | 4,7 | 3,7 | 3,9 | |
2014 | Current expenditure | 629,3 | 910,5 | 929,9 | 2 469,7 |
Capital expenditure | 15,9 | 51,5 | 31,4 | 98,8 | |
Total | 645,2 | 962,0 | 961,3 | 2 568,5 | |
Share of capital expenditure (%) | 2,5 | 5,4 | 3,3 | 3,8 | |
2015
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Current expenditure | 658,0 | 1 004,4 | 1 046, | 2 708,8 |
Capital expenditure | 24,2 | 52,1 | 31,7 | 108,0 | |
Total | 682,2 | 1 056,5 | 1 078,1 | 2 816,8 | |
Share of capital expenditure (%) | 3,5 | 4,9 | 2,9 | 3,8 | |
2016 | Current expenditure | 616,0 | 953,5 | 925,1 | 2 494,6 |
Capital expenditure | 21,3 | 47,4 | 35,7 | 104,4 | |
Total | 637,3 | 1 000,8 | 960,8 | 2 598,9 | |
Share of capital expenditure (%) | 3,3 | 4,7 | 3,7 | 4,0 | |
Source: Eurostat (online data code: educ_uoe_fini01) |
Procurement Procedure
More informationPublic procurement system is very centralised.
National Public Procurement Agency (ANAP): main public body in the public procurement system belonging to the Ministry of Finance.
- responsible for legislation and policy-making
- fulfils executive and monitor functions
- implements ex-ante controls on all the tenders regardless of their value.
Council for Solving Complaints (CNSC): the first instance administrative body that has jurisdictional power over public procurement procedures.
- its main objective is to ensure the compliance of the contracting authorities with the respective legislations
- in order to achieve the compliance, it examines the complaints about any irregularities
- it has got the authority to force the contracting authorities to take corrective actions
- an appeal can be issued at the Court of Appeal against the decision of the CNSC and the decision about the appeal is binding for all the parties involved.
Romanian Court of Accounts: the main oversight body
- implements expost audits and controls of the planning, management and use of public financial sources during the public procurement process
- has to report its findings to ANAP and to the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA). DNA has the right to issue and sanction if the irregularity is justified.
Audit Authority within the Court of Accounts: implement external audit of EU-co-funded projects.
Competition Council: an autonomous administrative body,
- responsible for protecting and stimulating competition
- fulfils its monitoring role through the Bid Rigging Module (BRM) that analyses control reports in order to identify potential anticompetitive actions during the public procurement processes. If they find any suspicious case, they can implement an investigation on the selected processes
- has the right to issue sanctions and fines
Sources:
European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Romania Overview:
https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/romania_en
Public procurement – Study on administrative capacity in the EU Romania Country Profile:
https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/policy/how/improving-investment/public-procurement/study/country_profile/ro.pdf