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A ring of old metal keys on a closed school register with a blue cover, on a wooden school desk, in morning light.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Government creates a separate agency for schools in Ungheni district, taking over as founder from 2027

On 21 October, the Government approved the establishment of 34 territorial agencies for education, which take over schools from the district councils. Ungheni district gets its own agency, headquartered in the municipality of Ungheni, which becomes the founder of the primary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and special education institutions in the district from 1 January 2027. According to the draft decision, the agency will have 24 staff positions, compared with 26 in the district subdivisions being reorganized.

Ion Calmis·21 October 2026· News
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Moldovan lei banknotes on a desk, next to a pen and a payslip.
NATIONAL

560 million lei in one-off payments: 4,000 lei for teachers, 3,000 for doctors and police, 2,000 for workers

The Government approved a budget amendment on 2 September, allocating 560 million lei for one-off payments to public-sector employees whose average monthly salary is below 20,000 lei. Amounts: 4,000 lei for education staff, 3,000 for social services, healthcare, defence, law enforcement, culture and administration, 2,000 for workers. The payments compensate for the postponement of salary increases from 1 September to 1 January 2027.

Ion Calmis·3 September 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
Detail from the acceptance certificate for the works carried out in July 2026 at the high school in Măcărești: contractor SRL Aedificator, investor IP Liceul Teoretic Macaresti, object «Lucrari de reparatie a fatadei» (façade repair works), value of the works carried out 164,992.08 lei, followed by the cost-estimate table.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

What 976,270 lei repaired at the high school in Măcărești, and who carried out the works

Ungheni District Council allocated 976,800 lei between 2023 and 2026 to the building of the «Elada» Theoretical High School in the village of Măcărești: the façade, 68 radiators, the heating pipes, one wall, the canteen's sewerage and the joinery in the bathroom and toilet. The public decisions showed only how much had been approved. The acceptance certificates, obtained by the newsroom from the school and from the District Council, now show who did the work and how much was paid: 976,270 lei, seven works, five contractors.

Ion Calmis·7 August 2026· News
A renovated school building with a freshly thermally-insulated façade and a sign indicating public funding.
LOCAL

Whose money pays for the school renovations: in Costuleni, the district presents millions from the government as its own investments

The Ungheni District Council presented on Facebook the investments in the Todirești and Costuleni gymnasiums. The figures check out in documents — but at Costuleni, out of the roughly six-million-lei package, the district's own money is only the paving (531 thousand); the rest — the thermal insulation and the sanitary facilities — comes from the government and from the Ministry of Education. At Todirești, by contrast, the money really is the district's. All of it, five months before the reform takes these schools out of the District Council's subordination.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
An empty school corridor, with a blank nameplate on the door of an administrative office and archive boxes stacked against the wall.
NATIONAL

46 schools in Ungheni district move to the state, with 72.5% of the district budget — public documents do not say whether the district gains or loses

Parliament voted the «Restart in Education» reform in second reading on Thursday, 3 September: from 1 January 2027, primary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and special education move from district councils to Territorial Agencies for Education, subordinated to the ministry. District education departments are abolished. In Ungheni district this means 46 institutions with 11,061 pupils, and the segment that leaves amounts to 335.5 million lei, that is 72.5% of the district budget. The Ministry of Finance calculated that 14 district councils gain from the reform and 18 lose — but it did not publish the list, and Ungheni is not among the examples named.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Three people stand on the paved walkway in front of the white-and-green building of the high school in Măcărești on a sunny summer day; in the background, the entrance to the school with the flag of the Republic of Moldova.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Almost a million lei in four years for the high school building in Măcărești. Last year, the District Council allocated 505,500 lei for heating alone

The president of Ungheni district, Dionisie Ternovschi, published a video on Tuesday from the «Elada» Theoretical High School in Măcărești, saying that the district traditionally allocates money for current repairs there. The District Council's decisions put figures on that statement: 150,000 lei for 40 radiators in August 2025, 265,500 for the outdoor heating pipes in March and another 90,000 for rebuilding the standalone heating system in November — 505,500 lei in a single year, for heating alone. Added to the façade in 2023 and to the canteen wall and sewerage in May 2026, the allocations reach 976,800 lei in four years, for a school left with 19 pupils in grades X and XI.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· News
Symbolic illustration: an empty university lecture hall, rows of seats arranged in a semicircle, warm light falling from the blackboard, suggesting the places waiting for their students.
NATIONAL

9.013 budget-funded university places, most of them for teachers — the very field where Ungheni has 73 empty posts

The government has approved the state order for 2026–2027: state universities are opening 9.013 places with budget funding, and the largest share, as last year, goes to teacher training. For a graduate from Ungheni, the stakes are double — the district enters the new school year with 73 uncovered teaching posts, the fifth-largest shortfall in the country, and admissions, entirely online, start on July 27. On top of that comes a second door, the one in Romania, which closes even earlier.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Dozens of graduates in black gowns and mortarboards, wearing white stoles, applaud lined up along a red carpet in the college courtyard on a sunny summer day.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's Medical College has turned out 125 nurses — its largest class in four years, in a district that has lost 94

The class of 2026 collected its diplomas on 14 July: 125 graduates, in four groups. The number climbs year after year — 85 in 2023, 119 in 2024, 119 in 2025 — and it arrives in the very district that has 59 mid-level medical staff per 10,000 inhabitants against 94 nationally. How many of the class stay home is unknown: neither the hospital nor the health centre publishes its nursing vacancies, and the state's 96,000-lei grant is written for villages.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· Analysis