In Romania, the quality of school is below expectations, one newspaper reads. The Rroma community in Montpellier says that the French are good people. Last but not least, 20% of the population, in a village West Romania are children raised by maternal assistants.

Gandul reads on Monday that the quality of school in Romania is below expectations, quoting a study coordinated by the Faculty of Sociology in Bucharest on the interests and perceptions of the public regarding scientific research and its results.

The study revealed that 42% of the respondents believe that the sun rotates around the earth, that 35% of them believe that the HIV virus can be picked up if they drink water after an infected person. The study did not take aback the Education minister, Daniel Funeriu, who declared that he expected such results and he knows that the cause is the educational system.

The main cause of this situation is the poor quality of education, especially in the rural areas, he said. We need to modernize our country further, Funeriu said and underlined that this is the main priority of the reforms in education.

The study reveals that 95% of the Romanian believe in God, but 40% of them believe that their horoscope influences their personality and 22% believe that the horoscope is scientific. Theologist Gheorghe Istodor declared that at the collective mental level, there is an unnatural blend of religion and occultism on the one hand and science and occultism on the other hand.

The Rroma community in Montpellier sayd that the French are good people, authorities treat them civilized but they complain about the tough controls in their camps, Evenimentul Zilei reads. Both policemen and citizens became more cautious since the French President Sarkozy announced a new set of laws to ease immigrant e