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n How do you think most people who made a fortune in Romania succeeded in doing so?
NK/NA6%
work and personal
merit11%
by breaking the law57%
connections15%
luck8%
another way3%
Do you think that in Romania it is important to go to school in order to make money?
Yes45%
No51%
NK/NA4%
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n According to you, which is the most important thing for a school to be considered a good school?
But what do you think is most important in order for a teacher to be considered a good teacher?
5%
26%
36%
5%
2%
2%
2%
1%
1%
20%
Well-trained teachers
Good equipment
Good students, students' results
Fairness, honesty
Education provided for children, educatingstudents
Teachers who care, who do their job
To be able to get at job after graduation
Thoroughness
other
NK/NA
3%
3%
4%
4%
4%
4%
5%
23%
2%
10%
2%
17%
19%
Be well trained, prepared, skilled, competent, qualifiedBe a good educator, teach well, make him/herself
understoodBe involved, do his/her job, to care
Be honest, fair
Be authoritative, exigent, demanding
Be close to the children, love them, treat them well
Be well paid
To really teach children their three r's, students' results
Be understanding, indulgent, tolerant, patient
Have skills of communication with childrenTo love his/her job, to be passionate about it, to have
the callingother
NK/NA
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n Who do you believe is in charge of the school management?
According to you, who should decide what children learn in school?
[If Ministry of Education and somebody else] And who exactly?
Only the principle
35% Principle
and somebody
else59%
NK/NA6%
60%
41%
36%
35%
4%
7%
10%
3%
School employees
Local Council
Parents
Ministry of Education
Church
Companies
Other
NK/NAN=1295 respondents
Only the Ministry of Education
55%
Ministry of Education
and somebody
else38%
NK/NA7%
40%
25%
17%
16%
7%
3%
5%
10%
63
9%
Teachers
Parents
Each school individually
Civil society
Students
Local Council
Church
Companies
Other
NK/NAN=848 respondents
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n As far as you know, which is the current number of compulsory grades to be completed in the state education system?
What about the free of charge education (for which no tuition fee is paid)?
other remarks
1%
12 grades14%
NK/NA8%
9 grades5%
8 grades38%
10 grades34%
NK/NA22%
4 grades3%
12 grades31%
other remarks
1%
9 grades3%
8 grades25%
10 grades15%
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n How many grades do you believe should be compulsory?
How about the grades that should be free of charge (no tuition fee payable)?
other remarks
2%
12 grades48%
NK/NA7%
9 grades1%
8 grades18%
10 grades24%
NK/NA12%
all grades/including university
6%
12 grades53%
other remarks
3%
8 grades13%
10 grades13%
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May, 2004
n If you had a child who just graduated from the compulsory education (8 or 10 grades), what would you advise him/her to do out of the following?
Where to pursue his/her studies?
To pursue his/her studies
85%To start working
9%
NK/NA2%
I wouldn't give him/her any piece of
advice4%
high-school35%
vocational/apprentice
school (crafts and
trades)7%
NK/NA3%
post-secondary
school2%
university53%
N=1853
in the household
16%
in Romania, but not in
the household
49%
abroad27%
NK/NA8%
N=209
Where to work
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n Do you believe that kindergarten should be compulsory?
Do you agree with the existence of private education?
Yes87%
No10%
NK/NA3%
Yes46%
Yes, under
specific circumsta
nces9%
NK/NA6%
No39%
24%
18%
10%
4%
1%
24%
21%
Affordable tuition fees
Reliability/quality
To beaccredited/acknowedged
Compulsory standardsubject matters/rules as in
Provide jobs upongraduation
Other answers
NK/NAN=1821 respondents
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n Do you agree with the existence of private education at the following levels …?
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements...?
56%
51%
51%
48%
38%
38%
43%
43%
45%
55%
6%
7%
6%
6%
7%
compulsory education (elementary and secondarycycles)
vocational and apprentice schools (crafts andtrades schools)
high-school
kindergarten
university and post-graduate
NO YES NK/NA
Differences up to 100% stand for NK/NA.
16
13
1914
39
26
22
4
7
29
34
36 5
21
17
What is being taught inschools in Romania is
useful for the students intheir lives
Romanian education isbetter than the Western
education.
Education during thesocialist age was better
than it is nowadays
rather no not at all I rather agree I completely agree NK
Differences up to 100% stand for the NA
%
I completely disagree I rather disagree
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n According to you, over the past 14 years, in the Romanian education system there have been...
many changes
45%
very many changes
21%
a few changes
14%
NK15%
very few changes
5%
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May, 2004
n What should students learn first of all out of the following?
How much do you generally trust the professional training of...?
52
25
12
10
2
17
37
28
12
to be tidy
to observe therules
to co-operatewith other people
to beindependent
NK/NAFirst remark
Second remark
%
20
19
4
3
56
55
1
1 13
14 5
7
elementary schoolteachers
high-school andsecondary school
teachers
little very little not at all much very much NK
Differences up to 100% stand for the NA.
%
not at all very little little
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May, 2004
n For the same subject matter, do you believe there should be one single textbook or several textbooks out of which one is selected?
[If several] And who should select the textbook used in class?
There should be one single
textbook87%
There should be several
textbooks out of which one is selected
10%
NK/ cannot assess
3%
70
38
26
21
18
teacher
Ministry ofEducation
students
parents
school principle
%
N = 682 respondents
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n Do you believe that Romanian schools provide equal chances for all children or are there children who are disadvantaged?
[If there are] Who are these children?
3%
3%
4%
4%
4%
4%
5%
23%
2%
10%
2%
17%
19%
Be well trained, prepared, skilled, competent, qualifiedBe a good educator, teach well, make him/herself
understoodBe involved, do his/her job, to care
Be honest, fair
Be authoritative, exigent, demanding
Be close to the children, love them, treat them well
Be well paid
To really teach children their three r's, students' results
Be understanding, indulgent, tolerant, patient
Have skills of communication with childrenTo love his/her job, to be passionate about it, to have
the callingother
NK/NA
provide equal chances for all children
37%
there are children who
are disadvantage
d55%
NK/NA8%
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n But do you believe there are children who are being privileged at school?
[If there are any] Who are these privileged children?
No24%
Yes63%
NK/NA13%
72
8
7
3
1
1
5
8
5
4
0
0
Children of rich people
Teachers' relatives/children
Children of influential people
Bright children/ those who studyhard
Poor children
Other answers
First remark
Second remark
%
N = 1394 respondents
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May, 2004
n To what extent do you agree with the following statement: “a student can obtain good results only if he/she is tutored by a teacher against payment”?
to a great extent21%
to a very great extent
11%
to a small extent26%
NK12%
to a very small extent
30%