Moldovan PM summons meeting to consider difficulties in work, accreditation of automobile schools

Chisinau, 20 October /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today summoned a meeting at the government, to consider the needs of regulating the work and accreditation of the automobile schools, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

Attending the discussions were Education, Culture and Research Minister Igor Sarov, the director of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and Research (ANACEC), Andrei Chiciuc, as well as the deputy director of the Public Services Agency (ASP), Tatiana Cunetchi.     

Several automobile schools, whose permissive act expired, have earlier submitted requests to the government and the process of schools’ assessment was ceased on the period of the emergency state. ‘’We should de-block the situation and not allow the formation of queues in the process of evaluating the automobile schools and, respectively, at the taking of external exams by the graduates of these schools,’’ the prime minister said.    

The ASP deputy director, Tatiana Cunetchi, informed the PM that, in early 2020, 181 automobile schools had been accredited, of which 134 ones had their permissive acts valid in last September, while the acts of the other schools expired meanwhile. Cunetchi also said that there were presently over 6,000 people who cannot be allowed to take the external school-finishing exams, because the permissive acts of the schools where they learned expired.  

The automobile schools are responsible for updating the permissive act. These schools must initially submit an application to ANACEC, for the external evaluation for accreditation. Also, in the beginning of this year, the Education, Culture and Research Ministry (MECC) informed the automobile schools about the need to initiate the procedures for the external evaluation and getting the permissive act. Nevertheless, only six out of those 47 automobile schools, whose permissive acts expired, submitted the application for the external evaluation.   

Taking into account that the automobile schools with expired licence continue to educate people and create new groups, the PM asked MECC, ANACEC and ASP to officially publish the list of accredited automobile schools and the ones which do not valid licence. ‘’We encourage people to verify the official data before applying to an automobile school, to see whether this institution is accredited,’’ Ion Chicu said.    

To unlock the situation as to the recognition of the studies made by those over 6,000 pupils at the automobile schools, which had expired permissive acts in the transition period, the prime minister backed the solution proposed by MECC. The solution sees that the automobile schools who got the permissive act, but trained pupils on the period of the act’s expiration, will be obliged to repeatedly evaluate the pupils at the institution, bearing the expenses from the institution’s budget and issue new schooling cards to the graduates. In the case of the institutions which do not have the permissive act, but made trainings, the pupils will be re-evaluated at another institution which works in legal conditions, with the bearing of expenditures from the school‘s budget.      

In the end, the prime minister asked the Interior Ministry, State Fiscal Service and the Agency for Consumers’ Protection to supervise the work of automobile schools which presently work with expired permissive acts. 

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