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Legea Învățământului Preuniversitar nr. 198/2023 stipulează clar faptul că elevii reprezintă beneficiarii primari ai tuturor programelor și măsurilor din sfera învățământului preuniversitar din România. În acest context, rolul nostru este de a ne asigura că acțiunile decidenților urmăresc în mod primordial interesele legitime ale elevilor.
We campaign for the inclusion of students in the most important debate forums both at the school level, as well as at the county and national level, so that the decisions made by those in charge are based on the needs and interests of the primary beneficiaries. Starting from the premise that students represent the center of the educational system, we act so that the problems they face are permanently on the public agenda, and the related measures are adopted only after consultation with them.
The range of action of the Student Council also extends to the territory, at the county level, through the county student councils, as well as at the school level, where school student councils meet. Although there is a legislative framework that clearly regulates the rights that students enjoy, they are still being violated. From commuting issues and poor conditions in educational institutions, to abuses in the classroom: recording absences as a means of coercion, subjective grades, bullying, we are here to combat unfair practices in the school environment.
Although it has many shortcomings, the educational system is full of people, be they students, teachers, parents or activists for a quality inclusive education, who try to transform the school into an environment conducive to the harmonious development of the student from a physical and mental point of view. Every time we meet such people, we aim to offer them as an example and facilitate the spread of the good practices they initiate.
The students' county and school councils are the bodies with which they most easily come into contact, which is why we invest every opportunity in the human resources at our disposal, to guarantee the visibility and representativeness of the efforts undertaken by substructures at the local level.
Our team
Vlăduț-Marius Iordache
PRESIDENT
vladut.iordache@consiliulelevilor.ro
Daria-Ioana Ostachi
Executive Secretary - Internal Organisation
daria.ostachi@consiliulelevilor.ro
Melania-Andreea Ion
Executive Secretary - External Affairs
melania.ion@consiliulelevilor.ro
Alexandru-Ionuț Popa
vice-president
alexandru.popa@consiliulelevilor.ro
Diana-Maria Stoica
vice-president
diana.stoica@consiliulelevilor.ro
Ștefan Ioniță
Vicepreședinte
stefan.ionita@consiliulelevilor.ro
Paul Ciontoiu
National Ethics Commission
Renata Tothăzan
National Ethics Commission
Sebastian Apetri
National Ethics Commission
conet@consiliulelevilor.ro
Our efforts over time
2023Negru pentru burse
Consiliul Național al Elevilor a lansat un apel către toți elevii din România să poarte un obiect vestimentar de culoare neagră pentru a exprima poziția fermă asupra modificării cerințelor de acordare și cuantumul burselor școlare. Am fost plăcuți surprinși să vedem că am reușit să mobilizăm peste 100.000 de elevi și să vedem că ne putem amplifica vocea cu ajutorul colegilor noștri.
2022Nu mai jucați ping-pong cu educația
Consiliul Național al Elevilor, a fost prezent în fața Ministerului Educației și a Ministerului Sănătății, pentru a trage un semnal de alarma vizavi de nevoia de predictibilitate în sistemul educațional.
Am solicitat decidenților adoptarea unui algoritm în baza căruia să se decidă funcționarea școlilor, precum și clarificarea situației testelor non-invazive, aspecte cuprinse în petiția noastră, la care am strâns 50.000 de semnături.
2020Țară, țară, vrem laptopuri pentru școala online!
Alături de cei de la Declic România, am strigat catalogul elevilor care au fost privați de educație în perioada școlii online în fața Guvernului României. Peste 23.500 de membri Declic și Consiliul Național al Elevilor au cerut Ministerului Educației să suplimenteze fondurile din programul național „Școala de Acasă” și să asigure laptopuri pentru toți elevii din România.
2019Subscription to education
Through "Subscription to education", a campaign launched at the beginning of 2019, we want to bring to public attention a pressing problem faced by students in Romania, namely the fact that they do not benefit from the minimum 50% discount for public transport, although this aspect is stipulated in the law.
Moreover, we want to focus the attention of the decision-makers also on the students' commute, the cost of which is often not fully settled.
2019#blanksheet
În acest an, elevii au dat #foaiagoală la simulările examenelor naționale, alăturându-se protestului inițiat de Consiliul Național al Elevilor.
Câteva motive ce au stat la baza mișcării, formulate în primăvara anului 2019, sunt enumerate mai jos:
„Dăm foaia goală pentru că simulările nu ne vor evalua competențele, ci doar cunoștințele. Nu ne vor evalua capacitatea de a gândi critic, ci doar capacitatea de a reproduce informațiile care ne-au fost dictate la clasă.”
„Dăm foaia goală pentru că schimbările nefundamentate nu sunt soluția în educație. Itemii de tip obiectiv nu au fost etalonați, iar noi, deși suntem beneficiarii direcți ai educației, nu am fost
consultați.”
„Dăm foaia goală pentru a trage un semnal de alarmă înainte
să fie prea târziu, înainte să ajungem în punctul critic în care vom susține simulări de examene naționale anual, pentru că decidenții își doresc să pună cât mai multă presiune pe noi.”Astfel, elevii au fost încurajați ca în loc să rezolve subiectele, să își scrie pe foaie nemulțumirile cu privire la sistem, militând simbolic pentru o schimbare.
2019Mourning for education
The National Student Council urged all students in Romania to protest on September 9, during the opening festivities of the school year, wearing a black armband or other article of clothing.
The most recent measure appearing in the sphere of education, by which students who obtain admission averages below 5 at the end of secondary school are assigned directly to vocational schools, was the main reason that led us to go out to protest in the school yard.
We believe that the proposal from the Ministry of National Education nullifies the efforts made in recent years to increase the relevance of vocational education and distracts attention from the real reasons why some students do not perform at the National Assessment: underfunding of the educational sector, the inefficiency of the teaching-learning act, the lack of inclusion in the school environment.
2018Education - national security
At the beginning of 2018, the National Council of Students launched a campaign aimed at changes in the curricular area at the high school level, a campaign in which over 136,000 signatures were collected.
Some of our requests were:
- prioritization of the stages of curriculum development (the development of framework plans should start from the profile of the graduate);
- the education plan should be designed in such a way as to favor certain exits from the system (to ensure that, whether he chooses higher education, the labor market or another alternative, the student has certain skills "for life");
- prioritization of studied subjects;
- more intense focus on the particularities of students;
- the transfer of emphasis from the school to the student by transforming the curriculum at the school's decision into the curriculum at the student's decision from the school's offer;
- groups consisting of a minimum number of approximately 15 students for the organization of curriculum subjects at the student's decision from the school's offer;
- the common core should contain subjects with wide applicability, such as health education, legal education, Romanian language, oratory, critical thinking, etc.;
- transparency in the process of finalizing the framework plans.
As a result of the approach, a working group was set up on the framework plans, which also included student representatives. However, following numerous changes at the head of the Ministry of National Education, the group was no longer active.
2018We put the requests on L544/2001 under the Christmas tree of the town halls!
The representative students are bored with the classic Christmas gifts! In the winter of 2018, they no longer wrote to Santa about their education wishes, but sent applications to all local councils to see how they had progressed over the years in terms of top-up funding.
The purpose of the approach was to make a comparison between the amounts of money that the town halls have allocated in recent years for the educational sector and the amounts invested in other spheres: culture, religion, recreation.
2017Scholarships throughout Romania!
The actions of the National Council of Students have focused on the superficiality with which school scholarships are treated by the authorities since the beginning of 2017.
What was supposed to be a simple intervention in the sense of regulating not only the obligation, but also a minimum amount for granting scholarships, turned out to be a fight against the people at the helm of the education systemțional.
The project of the National Council of Students followed the parliamentary procedure, Law 38/2019, which complements the National Education Law 1/2011, being recently adopted. Unfortunately, however, the approach for scholarships continues, because the interests of the local public administration authorities are put above those of the students, and the Romanian Government does not respect its commitment.
At the end of 2019, CNE wrote an open letter addressed to the Government, supported by civil society, but also a petition to include the funding necessary to transform the measure into a viable one in the projected state budget for 2020, signed by over 30,000 Romanian citizens.
2016Student status
The Student Statute is the first document that distinctly regulates the rights and obligations of students enrolled in state, private or denominational pre-university education institutions in Romania.
The existence of this normative act is essential for a quality, democratic education system centered on the student and his grievances. The Student Status is entirely a student initiative, its content being debated and voted on during the General Assembly of the National Council of Students held in Hunedoara county, in December 2015.
Following many hours of negotiations, pressure from many actors in the pre-university education system, multiple debated amendments and constant battles in which the students' opinion was considered irrelevant, the document was adopted through OMENCŞ no. 4742 of August 10, 2016, being published in the Official Monitor of Romania, part I, on August 23, 2016 and entering into force 30 days later, on September 22, 2016.