Critics from the PSD peak, after Daniel David told the students to take part-time jobs. “Life in Bucharest or Cluj is obscene expensive”

“The fact that a student takes a part-time job should be an exception, not the rule,” Senator Victoria Stoiciu, vice-president of the PSD, reacted on Wednesday, after the Minister of Education, Daniel David, urged students to look for part-time jobs.

“The rule should be an educational system that offers equal chances, which encourages serious study and quality education,” Stoiciu wrote, in a message published on her Facebook page.

“Reality is different,” she says, saying that “without David's reform, there were already many students forced to work part-time.” “Do you know why? Because if you come from outside the big university centers and you do not have a family to support you financially, you can not only deal with the stock market,” argues the deputy president of the Social Democrats.

What Victoria Stoiciu says:

• “I do not convince the examples with students who “manage spectacular” to work part-time and, at the same time, have excellent notes. A system is built for ordinary people, not for exceptions.
• Just as you cannot live decent only from a part time, when life in Bucharest or Cluj is obscenely expensive.
• If we really want quality education, we need to understand that investment in scholarships and support for students is an investment in the future, not an expense.
• Otherwise, we will get a budgetary economy for the moment, but we will lose thousands of intelligent and talented young people who do not receive that helping hand when they need the most.
• And I say this from my own experience: without the scholarship offered by the Romanian state, I could never have made a college. Mine were simply too poor.“

On Tuesday, the Minister of Education, Daniel David, met with the students, to discuss the measures regarding the fiscal-budgetary crisis with impact on the university and students in particular.

On the occasion of the Forum of the National Alliance of Student Organizations of Romania (ANOSR), organized in Timișoara, David discussed with students about the effects of the measures adopted by the Government and about the ways in which they can be managed in the university system, according to a statement of the Ministry of Education.

The government official stressed that the measures taken by the Government are necessary to ensure the necessary funds for salaries and scholarships by the end of 2025 and to prepare, subsequently, the development and reforms in the field in 2026.

“No one wanted them and would not have been taken in this form under normal conditions, and the fact that they are temporary shows the opening of the Government of Romania to return when the fiscal-budgetary conditions will allow this,” said Daniel David, quoted in the statement.

According to News.ro, in the debate section, talking about reducing the students' ticks, the minister said: “I do not want to upset you, but somehow I would think about taking a part-time job.”

Students say: “Although we do not want to leave, we feel pushed by circumstances to go to another space.”

Students, protesting for several days, advertise:

• the reduction of 90% to the rail transport of the students, limited only on the distance between the home and the university center in which it studies, starting with January 1, 2025 and extended until the end of 2026;
• cutting the scholarship fund from August 1, 2025, modifying the value of the standard cost allocated for the establishment of the fund, from reporting to gross minimum wage;
• modifying the period of allocation of the stock exchange fund and granting the scholarships to the students;
• eliminating the possibility of students from places with a tax to benefit from scholarships;
• Elimination of the possibility of cumulating scholarships for Romanians everywhere with performance or special scholarships.

The students protested on Tuesday and announced that they will continue to oppose the measures taken by the Government.

“The lack of a real dialogue with the national decision -makers has urged more than 300 students from all over the country to put pressure on the members of the government to listen to the students' requests, so that they do not feel driven by the carelessness shown by the decision -makers. Limiting the student rights cannot represent a form by which the Government” reduces 2025 showed that both the limitation of the reduction to the rail transport of the students and the decrease of the scholarship fund have a small budgetary impact. In fact, the real impact of these measures can be seen in the standard of living of students and at the rate of university abandonment in Romania, already at a high level compared to other European states and often correlated with the socio-economic problems of young people who fail to study, ”ANOSR said, in a press release.

According to students, “in a state where students do not feel valuable for the development of the country and in which they perceive their education and implicitly their future and the Romanian society as a theme at the tail of the list of priorities, they have only to seek a place where education would not be considered a burden, but an investment for better.”

“Although we do not want to leave, we feel pushed by circumstances to go to another space, one that will give us a dialogue and support to succeed in creating a future,” says ANOSR.