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A new academic year begins

A new academic year begins in Romania.

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studenti sursa foto pixabay com@marcela net

, 30.09.2024, 13:50

 

 

Most academic centres in Romania hosted opening ceremonies on Monday. Attending the festivities, alongside students and teaching staff, were also representatives of central and local authorities. There are also universities, such as the National School for Political and Administrative Studies, which open their gates on October 1, as tradition has it.

 

This year, many high school graduates have chosen business studies, administration and law, engineering, medicine, foreign languages and social assistance studies. The head of the National Alliance of Student Organisations in Romania, Sergiu Covaci, explained that young people’s preferences are quite diverse. In fact, he also explained, the number of youth who choose to go to university is on the rise.

 

In the capital city Bucharest, among the universities that started classes on Monday are the University of Bucharest, the Polytechnic University and the Academy of Economics. Over 14,000 students started a new academic year at the ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, including around 3,000 freshmen. The new class of medical students is named after ‘Academy Member Ana Aslan’, a notable personality of Romanian and international medicine.

 

At the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University in Iaşi (east), the academic year begins with record-high admission figures for the past 20 years. The number of applicants was substantially above the number of seats available, and the total number of students admitted here is over 13,000.

 

Opening ceremonies were also held in military academies around the country, including the ‘Ferdinand I’ Military Technical Academy, the ‘Carol I’ National Defence University in Bucharest, the ‘Henri Coandă’ Air Force Academy in Braşov and the ‘Nicolae Bălcescu’ Land Force Academy in Sibiu (central Romania).

 

Students will have a two-week break around the winter holidays, between Christmas and the New Year, and the first semester ends in late January-early February. After the exam session, the second semester begins, as usual, in February, with a one-week break for Easter. For most students, the semester will end in late May or early June, when the summer exam session begins. The longest and most eagerly awaited break, following the exam session, spreads the entire summer, until the next academic year begins in October. (AMP)

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