Romanian Education in Times of Pandemic

ABSTRACT: In Romania, face-to-face courses in preschool, primary, secondary, high school, vocational, post-secondary and higher education have been suspended since the beginning of the state’s declaration of emergency by the country’s president, but the educational process continued through technology-assisted learning until the end of the semester when the school/university year courses ended. Students and teachers who did not have access to technology received support from schools, school inspectorates, town halls etc. The students continued the technology-assisted learning, and the exams could be taken online, remaining at the discretion of each higher education institution. The Romanian education system was not prepared to provide the favorable framework for an efficient and qualitative online educational act for all participants, the quality of face-to-face learning being far superior to those in times of pandemic. KEYWORDS: research, education, teaching, online, pandemi