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Press review – December 30, 2020

Press review – December 30, 2020

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Sorin Cîmpeanu: The moment of the opening of schools will be established together with the Ministry of Health, depending on the epidemiological developments
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Minister of Education, Sorin Cîmpeanu, declared that the moment of the opening of the schools will be established together with the Ministry of Health, depending on the epidemiological developments. According to the minister, the way in which other states have proceeded will also be taken into account.

"The moment of the opening of the schools will be established together with the Ministry of Health depending on the epidemiological developments. We will also take into account the experience and the way of reaction of other states", he specified.

Sorin Cîmpeanu reiterated that, from the perspective of the Ministry of Education, the priorities are kindergartens and primary education, eighth and twelfth grade students who will take national exams, as well as schools that have experienced difficulties in the online education process.

"From the perspective of the Ministry of Education, we want to prioritize on three levels: kindergartens and primary education; VIIIth and XIIth grade students who will take the national exams; the students of schools that experienced difficulties in the online education process, especially in rural environment, but not only", the minister explained.

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The last tablets for the students in Timiș have arrived
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Over 6.300 students from Timiș needed tablets for online school. In the spring, the County School Inspectorate asked the Ministry of Education for a number of 6.367 tablets so that students could attend classes at home. It wasn't until December 2 that a first shipment arrived, with 3.000 devices. They were distributed to 90 educational units in the countryside.

"The last 3.376 tablets from the total of 6370 distributed in the "Home School" Program have arrived. On Tuesday, starting at 11 a.m., the distribution will take place according to a schedule/instructions that was sent to the 78 educational units that will receive tablets, most of them in the urban environment, out of a total of 168 educational units that were included in this program", said Marin Popescu, general school inspector from Timiș.

For now, it is not known if these devices are enough for all the students in Timiş who need help to attend online school. In a more recent assessment, authorities found that 7.220 tablets would be needed, more than 900 more than the calculations made in the spring. The difference was to be ensured from donations and the involvement of local authorities.

The criteria for which tablets are granted: there is no computer equipment in the family, there is only one computer equipment in the family, but there are two or more siblings, students, or the family has only one equipment, tablet or laptop, but it is used by parents, in telework.

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Romania attracted only 250 million of the billions of euros available through the Horizon 2020 program, with a success rate of 12,6% – one of the weakest absorptions at EU level
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The largest European research program to date, Horizon 2020, has largely gone unnoticed in Romania. The seventh country in the EU, according to the size of the population, managed to attract only 250 million euros, out of a total of almost 60 billion available through this program at the level of the entire Union, according to official data aggregated by the European Commission and consulted by EduPedu .ro. This places Romania 20th out of 28 member states (including the UK) and 23rd or lower among member and associated states, according to an analysis recently published by the journal Nature.

  • Horizon 2020 made available, during a period that started in 2014 and ends at the end of this year, almost 80 billion euros for research and innovation, a high package intended to attract more private investment to support this field. The goal – increasing Europe's competitiveness at the global level, strengthening economic growth and increasing the number of jobs. Estimates from Nature magazine place the allocations so far at almost 60 billion euros.

According to the latest data available on Horizon 2020 Dashboard, page of the European Commission last updated this month, the situation in Romania suggests that the money made available by the European Union for research, from 2014 until now, has mostly passed by the potential beneficiaries in Romania. So:

  • Net EU contribution to Romanian research, through Horizon 2020, amounted to 249,7 million euros
  • This means a success rate of only 12,65%
  • There is a gap between Bucharest-Ilfov, Cluj and the rest of the country
  • 932 were signed grants, with 1412 organizations involved in projects Horizon 2020
  • There were 9253 of submitted projects and 6.805 eligible proposals
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Teachers don't want to get rid of online school by vaccination. How to explain
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56% of 13.000 teachers surveyed said they did not want to get vaccinated against COVID.

The article sparked vehement comments on social media. Rational arguments against vaccination were replaced by violent statements by teachers: "Should we vaccinate with poison?", "Death is also written among side effects." "No to compulsory vaccination! If there are many of us, I can't force us!"

The vehement reactions and the huge percentage of teachers who do not want to get vaccinated cannot be explained in the context where they all say they want to return to face-to-face classes as soon as possible.

Vaccination would be synonymous with escaping from the online school, an ordeal for many of the students and teachers. Due to the lack of knowledge, technology or the Internet, online school either did not work or was very time consuming.

The "soft" explanation for the percentage mentioned above would be that teachers have internalized the theory that the school is not an incubator for COVID. During the period when face-to-face stitches were made, only 10% of schools were closed because cases of infected children were found.

 

How Many Romanians Would Vaccinate Against COVID, How Many Would Refuse And What Reasons They Give, According to the Results of the Latest IRES Survey
Looking for good news from 2020
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The first good news could be that 2020 is not really the worst year in human history, as the American magazine claimed Time in its December 5 issue. 2020 – the worst year ever, could be read on the cover. Unfortunately, many other years in the history of human adventure on Earth can compete for this title, and some are still painfully imprinted in the memory of living people. The years of the Second World War, for example, with their procession of atrocities, with the Holocaust and with the loss of freedom for millions of people, can without hesitation apply for the title of the worst year ever. Or the year 1918, when the first world war ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic broke out, which killed three times as many people as the war, and it can claim the first place in the panoply of the most horrible years... I will not delve deeper for that even a general school student can realize, from the history lessons already completed, that the magazine Time it's just a media parade. French columnist Franz-Olivier Giesbert, in the magazine The Point, believes that the decree by the magazine Time of the year 2020 as the worst in human history is a sign that America has gone mad. So back to what seems to me to be the first piece of good news: there have been years even worse than 2020, and this should give us confidence going forward

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New sports minister wants school classes to start every day with 45 minutes of exercise and nutrition
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Carol Eduard Novak, the new Minister of Youth and Sports, has bold plans. "Every child must know how to swim and skate," says Romania's only Paralympic champion. He spoke to Digi24 about how to find a different formula for physical education in schools and says that, for example, children should start each school day with 45 minutes of exercise and nutrition. He aims to achieve this within a year.

"I want every child to know how to swim, how to skate. Minimum. And the educational system must be involved in sports. Let's find another physical education formula, 45 minutes of stretching plus nutrition. I would put the first hour to start from here, the first hour every day 45 minutes of gymnastics and nutrition, after that we are fresh, we can start learning", said the Minister of Sports.

He gave the example of the former mayor of Miercurea Ciuc, who asked the schools that each class go swimming with the children once a week and ice skating once.

The minister finds it inappropriate the way some sports teachers have chosen to conduct and grade their students during the pandemic - they ask them to do jumps and exercises specific to a gym at home and register. Eduard Novak says that he has seen this even in his children, whom he hears jumping in their room. And in this case, the minister says that some simple gymnastic exercises would have been more effective.

 

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The UK has withdrawn from the Erasmus programme. What will it be replaced with and how will students be affected
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson abandoned the European exchange program for students - Erasmus, as part of his post-Brexit agreement concluded on Christmas Eve, according to AFP.

The Prime Minister cited cost issues and announced a global British program instead, reports AFP, according to News.ro.

Stressing that it was a "difficult decision", Boris Johnson explained that it was a "wonderful thing" to receive so many European students, but Erasmus was "extremely expensive" for the United Kingdom.

The head of the Conservative Government has announced a national program that will allow British students to go to study in "the best universities" around the world and not just in Europe.

The Erasmus program - in which the UK has participated since 1987 - is to be replaced by the Alan Turing Programme, a famous British mathematician.

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EDITORIAL - Aurora Liiceanu: A crazy year
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Life brings changes, will some things come back?

Some things have disappeared, some objects have disappeared, some customs have disappeared over time. Of course, some regardless of the pandemic: for example, the leather suitcase or cardboard suitcase, with corners, the coat, replaced by jackets, jackets, dandruff. For some, the kettle.

But, the fact that we don't have snow anymore and that frost that used to make you go into the house frozen and soften the heat, has kind of disappeared. Bald Christmas, without snow, is a fact that strongly shows me that life is changing.

I remember, so I also go to the past, that before 1990, in the poverty of Lucie, one Christmas, a Christmas tree appeared in the window of a pharmacy on the corner of my street. On the branches was strung ugly, coarse cotton wool, that is, snow, and in the fir there were only pharmaceutical products: tubes of Jecolan, with anti-infection creams, cellophane blisters with anti-neuralgic, sulfonamides, antibiotics, medicines, etc. Everything was so sad, and the theme, that was everything, the theme was suffering and not joy.

The pandemic has led to the disappearance of the Swedish buffet. Will he come back or will people give up on him? Nobody makes any predictions about the future, about the new normal, and we live in the nostalgia of the past, of the relational life of yesteryear, although the present seems to be a true new normal already. The problem is how long it will last, because anyway the past, even without a pandemic, does not repeat itself exactly as it was.

The general lack of imagination, the reluctance to concretely outline a possible future, combines with the inability of journalists, of those in social media, to find interesting topics. Their production is mind-bogglingly mundane, perhaps due to their superficiality, they all invaded the past, and many more or less notorious people responded immediately so that the public would not forget them.

This is how we see the picture of Andreea Esca, a child, not very pretty, to be honest, Maruța award-winning, little schoolboy with a crown on the top of her head, Gina Pistol younger, without plastic surgery when Smiley was not in her life or what X, Y looked like , Z etc. a few years ago, or in childhood, or at the wedding of youth.

It is also the time of confessions, everything happened in the past, what we consider public has become their spiritual, they practice sentimentality and emotional excess to stay in the public's attention. Florin Piersic, in tears, emotionally devastated, recounts a family trauma from 60 years ago, others recently nostalgically recall the Christmas of their childhood or memories they have not forgotten. Mihaela Rădulescu appears in pictures of the 1989 revolution, ambitious and brash, with a gun in her hand, probably euphorically unleashed, and Andreea Esca tells what she felt at that time. That is, the taste of total freedom, which later turned out to be a terrible taste. But she was too young to feel it.

 

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