3. How is done the continuous training for teachers nowadays?
The National Education Law specifies that the continuous training for the pre-university teachers is mandatory
for that the education institutions must allocate the necessary founds. The law does not stipulate anything for the
university teachers.
In the pre-university education system, the continuous training is organized by the different accredited
institutions. The lead role is taken by the Education Staff Houses from every district. The offer of these institutions
covers most of the demand for continuous training market.
State or private universities come with their own offer for continuous training, addressed to pre-university staff.
The teachers choose which program they want to follow by different criteria, an important one being the financial
one. The teachers choose to follow free training programs or the cheapest ones, paid by themselves because in the
majority of the education institutions the money that should be allocated in the annual budgets are missing or are not
enough compared to the demand or the training need.
Free continuous training programs can be conceived and accredited through national programs POSDRU or
international ones financed by the European Commission. The bureaucracy imposed for writing, approval and
proceeding of the POSDRU programs is important and sometimes discouraging. Most people who experienced the
management of a POSDRU project did not have the courage to do it again. Although writing eligible programs is
not an easy task, the courageous and perseverant people succeed eventually.
However, financed continuous training programs have been numerously and will continue. This is a direction that
must be used because is tempting financially speaking.
The non-free continuous training programs for pre-university teachers function especially at university supplier’s
level, but not only. Such programs have variable prices, sometimes important for a teacher’s budget and take place
usually at the university. That means the teachers must travel to the supplier’s place, involving supplementary
expenses and extra time necessary for the journey to and from the training sessions