Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA
These documents bring deep hierarchical changes in the structure and in the content at local
and departmental levels ‐ Departmental Centres of Resources and Educational Assistance are
conceived as an organism coordinating three structures:
School Centres of Inclusive Education
Psycho ‐ Pedagogical Assistance Centres and Offices (the offices in schools have about 800
students, organised in only one school or in clusters of schools with smaller populations,
and are funded from the state budget)
Interschool Logopedy Centres and Offices
Beginning with 1999 guidance and counselling became part of the national curricula, but
beginning with the school year 2005‐2006 were approved the first specific school programs for
it as a different subject (for all years of study). As a result of this fact by the end of 2007 a large
programme of continuous training for teachers and tutors was needed.
Implementation of Bologna process in Romania led to the necessity of widening the higher
education guidance and counselling network and increasing the number of centres to support
students in their own training path. (Ministry order OMEC no. 3235/ 2005 regarding organising
licence cycle in higher education). By 2006 only 20 university centres had active services of
guidance and counselling for students (Euroguidance Romania).
B. Labour Market Services Network
The are Information and Vocational Counselling Centres in the framework of the National
Employment Agency (NEA) located in all departments and also in major cities. The target
population is: young graduates, unemployed or adults searching for employment etc. The
centres provide their clients with information regarding the labour market, education and
training routes available, offer guidance to unemployed people and also act as a “mediator”
between potential employers and the persons in search of a job.
These centres are tiring also to establish a balance between educational training the labour
market and institutionalise social dialogue in the area of vocational placement and training etc.
The National Employment Agency (NEA) is offering services of work mediation in the EU and
EEA (European Economic Area) as a EURES (The European Job Mobility Portal) member
(http://www.anofm.ro/eures).
The „Document of Position of Romania Conf RO 50/01 –Chapter 2 – free circulation of persons
regulated this quality. Partners of public services of employment are trade unions, private
organisation and other actors involved in labour market development. The network s
coordinated by UE.
Also as a general aspect the NEA developed in 2004‐2008 the programme “Counselling
Services for Disabled Persons” and establishing 8 centres one for each region, with the large
purpose to develop one in every department.
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