Report: Number Of Pre-university Students Lower By 50,000 On Year In 2015
The number of students in the pre-university education system reached 3,164,470 in 2015, lower by 50,000 compared with the previous year, according to an Education Ministry report regarding the situation of Romania’s pre-university education system in 2014/2015.
“The number of students in the pre-university education fell from one school year to another by 14,000, down to 72,000 per year. In the 2014/2015 school year, the Romanian pre-university system counted 3,164.47 students, fewer by 50,000 against the previous year,” according to the report.
In the 2014 – 2015 school year, the number of employees in the pre-university education system saw a slight decline compared with the previous year, by approximately 4,000 people. (Puterea)
Romania GDP Grows 5.2% In First Half Of 2016
Romania’s gross domestic product rose 5.2% on the year in the first half in unadjusted terms and 5% in seasonally adjusted data, according to the statistics board INS.
In the second quarter, the country’s GDP grew 6% in unadjusted compared with the second quarter of 2015, and by 5.9% in seasonally adjusted terms. Compared with the first quarter this year, second quarter GDP increased 1.5% in real terms, the data showed.
Household consumption, imports and the IT&C sector contributed the most to the 5.2% GDP growth in the first half of 2016. (Adevarul)
INS: 24,106 Housing Units Put In Use In 1H/2016
A total 24,106 housing units were put in use in Romania in the first half of 2016, 4,572 more units compared with the year-earlier period, according to the statistics board INS.
Most units were put in use in urban areas, accounting for 56% of overall units.
The number of finished housing units grew in north-west (+1,424 units), north-east (+1,267), south-east (+815), west (+534), center (+388), Bucharest-Ilfov (+124) and Sud-Muntenia (+83). A drop in the number of finished units was registered in the South-West Oltenia region (-63 units). (Evenimentul Zilei)
Former PM Victor Ponta Placed Under Court Supervision
Anticorruption prosecutors on Tuesday placed former prime minister Victor Ponta under 60-day court supervision in a case in which he was heard for almost one and a half hour.
Prosecutors say in a press statement that Ponta is prosecuted in a new case for the use of influence or authority for illegally obtained gains for himself or others and for being an accomplice to money laundering.
It claims that Ponta used his authority to get confirmation of a businessman running for a seat in Parliament in a constituency that would guarantee successful running. The confirmation was sought by Ponta in order to get illegally obtained gains, namely EUR220,000 needed to prepare a visit to Romania by a foreign personality. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Dragos Tudorache Nominated As Interior Minister
Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos has nominated the head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Dragos Tudorache, for minister of interior, after Petre Toba submitted his resignation on September 1.
He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi in 1997 and holds a Master’s Degree in EU Law, Cum Laude, awarded by the Stockholm University, in 1999, and another Master’s Degree in EU Law from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. (Puterea)