MINELRES: Helsinki-Moldova Committee Says About 50 Schools in Transnistria Want to Study in Romanian

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Helsinki-Moldova Committee Says About 50 Schools in Transnistria Want to
Study in Romanian
November 2 2004 

The Moldovan Helsinki Committee for Human Rights announced at a news
conference on Tuesday that about 50 Romanian-speaking schools in
Transnistria which study in the Cyrillic script would switch to the
Latin script. 
The chairman of the Helsinki Committee, Stefan Uratu said that many
teachers and parents of students studying at those schools had contacted
him in the past 11 years. "They asked us to bid before international
organisations and help them turn to education in Romanian. They realise
very well that the studies based on the Cyrillic script and Soviet
curricula do not have any perspective. If they continue this way, their
children will be unable to pursue higher studies anywhere in Moldova or
around the world," Uratu stated. 

Teachers from these institutions, he continued, secretly teach the
students in Romanian, based on the Latin script, and use the handbooks
published in Chisinau. However, the curricula are imposed by the
secessionist authorities and Transnistrian inspectors visit these
schools from time to time, he specified. 

According to the Moldovan Education Ministry, there are 48
Romanian-speaking schools that use the Cyrillic spelling in the
Transnistrian region. 

BASA-PRESS