Press review – January 20, 2021

Deepening and advanced guidance in JavaScript and DOM programming, but also for the modular development of web applications

The West University of Timișoara joins the trend of specializing in communication through web tools and digitization, becoming a recognized trendsetter for certain components of the education and research process that deepen specialization for innovative applications.

After successfully launching the Cyber ​​Security and Blockchain Entrepreneurship programs, at the beginning of this year, the West University of Timișoara opens a new postgraduate program with a strong innovative profile, dedicated to advanced specialization in programming through Applied Web Technologies.

Registrations for the new postgraduate program "Applied Web Technologies", organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from UVT, are open on online registration section reserved for this program in the period: 11.01.2021 – 08.02.2021, with the testing to be carried out in the period: 09.02.2021 – 10.02.2021, and the interview to be held in the period: 11.02.2021 – 12.02.2021.

The rector of the West University of Timișoara, prof. univ. dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea, notes the strength of the new postgraduate program:

"I am convinced that our future graduates, who will specialize in advanced programming through web technologies, within the newly launched postgraduate program, will be among the most sought-after professionals in the western part of the country.

They will certainly become highly valued developers in the new digitized world that is being born, in an economy where programmer specialists are perhaps among the most valuable producers of added value for the big concerns, but also for Romanian companies, in the current economic reality and the future. The place of future software architects is at the center of the competitions of the future".

The mentors who will support the program are:

Şerban Cristea, mentor in JavaScript/React Web Development / Software Architect at Seltronix Software;

Flavian Ștef, mentor in Web Programming Tools and Technologies / Software Architect at Saguaro Technology;

The program director, from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, is Dr. Stelian Mihalaș, lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of UVT, and the coordinator responsible for postgraduate programs, from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of UVT, is Dr. Alexandra Fort.

PNL deputy Alexandru Muraru, vice-president of the Education Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, claims that the large number of teachers who refuse vaccination affects their image in society, asking school inspectorates and universities to initiate extensive information campaigns among teachers.

Deputy Alexandru Muraru on Tuesday launched a call to school inspectorates and university management to start internal campaigns and on social networks in order to popularize the benefits of vaccination. He stated that his call comes after finding that at the national level only 40 percent of pre-university teachers and 60 percent of university teachers announced their intention to get vaccinated. "The low percentage of teachers who are willing to get vaccinated negatively affects their image in society, as well as the education system as a whole. At this moment, for often unfounded reasons, the status of teachers is not appreciated as it should be. The struggle at the moment it is going into people's minds, after the researchers managed to make the weapon in the laboratories to be able to defeat the virus", declared the vice-president of the Commission for Education, PNL deputy Alexandru Muraru. At the same time, Alexandru Muraru specified that the role of teachers is "with all the more important, as teachers are role models for students and parents", he considering that the vaccine is the only way for students to return to classes.

Prime Minister Florin Citu declared that a decision regarding the reopening of schools will be taken on February 2, and "if things remain as they are" regarding the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, "it is clear" that schools will be reopened on February 8.

"The decision will be made on February 2. And we are watching, every day I receive from Mr. Arafat the statistics and analyzes in detail and we are watching exactly to see how the pandemic evolves. It is another important thing because we are all now focusing on the campaign of vaccination, which is important to communicate, but we must not forget that, still, there is a pandemic in Romania and at the global level. We must keep the restrictive measures, we must wear the mask, social distancing and all the other measures that gave results until today. We clearly monitor, daily, the situation. If things remain as they are, it is clear that we will start on February 8 with the conditions that the president announced when he stated that we will open schools on February 8", stated Florin Citu, on Tuesday, on Europa FM, asked if there is a "way back" regarding the decision regarding the reopening of schools starting on February 8.

The Prime Minister pointed out that it is important to reopen schools, but this also depends on the degree of compliance with the measures ordered by authority.

There are over 176 thousand workers and signals that many would not want to get vaccinated. Why not believe a survey by the Spiru Haret Trade Union Federation that says 56% of teachers refuse vaccination? Details HERE.

Teachers complained that the online school was not working. Many students had bad devices or poor Internet connection. Other teachers themselves had trouble navigating the online environment.

There were also teachers who did not like distance school out of laziness or convenience. Online school requires longer lesson preparation and creativity. It is an extra effort from a logistical point of view as well. Now that they're just one injection away from the nightmare of online school, they have big reservations. He refuses the vaccine that all doctors recommend, except those who got their degrees on Facebook or conspiracy theorists.

In the context in which more and more studies show that children can also represent an important factor in the spread of the virus.

"In Austria, mass testing in schools has shown that students are infected as often as adults... In Great Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics, students represent a very high percentage of the total number of people infected with the coronavirus," he writes dw.com

In the US, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is sure that vaccinations against the coronavirus will be mandatory in institutions such as hospitals and schools. Americans looked for and found court decisions that forced various communities to vaccinate. Details HERE.

In Romania, the doctor Adrian Wiener follows the same logic: "To return safely to schools, I think that a significant mass of teachers and why not students over 16 years of age should have gone through the vaccination stage, of course, only those who wish", according rfi.ro.

When parents and especially teachers refuse to vaccinate, children become fantastically efficient transmitters of the virus.

If the teachers are not convinced by the health safety arguments, they might think in the interest of the students. Vaccinating them could save hundreds of thousands of students who do not have access to education. Minister Sorin Cîmpeanu discovered that on January 6, in the computer system, there are the following: 237.000 students without internet and 287.000 students without tablets. This after 250 tablets had been delivered as it was thought, in the spring, that it would be necessary for the online school.

Details HERE

If the job of a teacher also involves sacrifices for the good and the future of the little ones, then teachers are obliged to do it. Get vaccinated! If not for you, then for the greats of tomorrow.