Most newspapers on Thursday read about the recent scandal involving private university Spiru Haret and its accreditation, leaving some 100,000 people without a diploma. Elsewhere in the news, the financial crisis pressured constructors to postpone or block works for at least 20 residential areas in Bucharest. Last but not least, journalists pertaining to media moguls Vantu and Voiculescu were not allowed to travel with the Presidential plane, on grounds that the plane is full.
Most newspapers on Thursday continue to cover the scandal generated against private university Spiru Haret. Gandul quotes Education minister Ecaterina Andronescu in an exclusive interview saying that Spiru Haret diplomas will not be canceled and that all those holding a diploma would have to be examined again, irrespective of the year they finished.
Andronescu dispelled the myth that all diplomas will be declared void. She explained that all those registered for unaccredited programs will have a chance to receive special diplomas, once they are re-examined. She assured that the ministry is searching for solutions to deal with the matter in a proper way.
At the moment, some 56,000 diplomas issued by Spiru Haret are blocked by the Education ministry. Andronescu urged the university to submit for accreditation the rest of the programs (90% of them).
Contradicting information in the newspapers today, as Evenimentul Zilei reads that Education minister declared that all those holding an unaccredited diploma from Spiru Haret University at the national level will not be able to use them.
The newspaper reads that there are some 100,000 people in this situation. One of the causes of this phenomenon is that Romanians are interested to have a diploma by all means even though it has no value per se.
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