The Minister of Education claims that Romania has the “most generous” EU scholarship system: “There are two criteria on which we will make this resizing”
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The Minister of Education, Daniel David, told Digi 24 on Saturday that “resizing” the scholarships is mandatory “given that you are facing an economic crisis and you have a scholarship system that has exploded in the last two years,” Agerpres reports.
“Compared to 2022, where the stock market funds, both in the pre-university and in the university or taken together, were under a billion, in 2025 we reached 6.4 billion. So we have an extremely generous scholarship system, the most generous in the European Union. You have a scholarship system that has exploded in the last two years, you are obliged to look at the resizing of these scholarships, “said Daniel David.
He argues that the resizing of the scholarships will be done on the basis of “two criteria”.
“A rational criterion, in other words, how normal it is in relation to the good European practices (…), and two-how much the country allows. I tell you that the model we discuss, who is not yet nailed, the model we discuss to ensure social scholarships for all children who need to participate in a mandatory education, they will need to have a social school. Education.
On the other hand, the official considers that “social scholarships must be kept.”
“We have to reduce the stock market fund. Anything can be cut right now. You have to think about where you cut, if you have to reduce the scholarship fund. My argument was that the social scholarships should be kept even if the fund is huge yet.
Daniel David claimed that “we started to turn education into a form in which we give notes to get scholarships, which is not right.”
The prime minister, about scholarships: “Think we pay almost a billion euros”
In the press conference he held after the Government meeting on Friday, Ilie Bolojan said that the student scholarship package “left three years ago from 188 million lei throughout the country and we reached 4.7 billion lei.”
“Any kind of scholarships are good, but think that we pay a billion euros almost only on the students' scholarships, and those who do an analysis of the notes will find an increasing dynamic, over the established threshold, immediately after the scholarships appeared, not due to the student's effort combined with the didactic one, but because of the stockmark and this must be reconfigured,”
