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An outdoor university fair: young people browsing brochures at stands with university banners, in a square in the city centre.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

How a graduate from Ungheni can get a tuition-free place in Romania

The Romanian Universities Fair, now in its fifteenth edition, stopped in Ungheni on Saturday, 4 July — part of a tour through four cities of the Republic of Moldova. Beyond the stands, the stakes for an Ungheni graduate are concrete: the Romanian state offers thousands of tuition-free places each year, some with a stipend, at universities across the Prut, and Iași is less than 50 kilometres away. Here is what the «Romanians everywhere» programme offers, how to apply and what to watch for.

Ion Calmis·5 July 2026· Explainer
Editorial illustration: a gala stage for academic excellence, with a lectern and a screen showing the number 10 and a diploma, in a solemn council hall
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ten Ungheni students with straight 10s honoured at the first excellence gala — and there are now six at the Baccalaureate, not four

On Friday, the Ungheni District Council held the first edition of its «Ungheni — Where Excellence Inspires» gala and awarded a diploma, a cash prize and flowers to ten students who scored a final mark of 10 in every national exam: six high-school graduates and four from lower secondary. Meanwhile, the final Baccalaureate results have raised the number of Ungheni students with straight 10s from four, as the preliminary data showed, to six — and this time one of them is a boy.

Ion Calmis·4 July 2026· News
Symbolic illustration: a bright, empty school corridor with a schoolbag left on a bench, in soft morning light — evoking concern for children's safety without showing any faces.
NATIONAL

Criminal record certificate and psychiatric clearance for anyone working with children: what the proposed law changes in Ungheni's schools — and why it is contested

A bill from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, now in first reading in Parliament, seeks to bar from working with children anyone convicted of offences against them — but also those under criminal proceedings, with suspension from duty as soon as prosecution begins. At every hiring in a school, kindergarten, sports club or camp, a detailed criminal record certificate, a sworn declaration and a psychiatric certificate would become mandatory. In the Ungheni district, the measure affects a network of over 1,270 teachers — at a moment when the district is entering the new year with dozens of vacant posts. The bill has firm backing from the Ombudsman for children's rights, but also two serious objections: the presumption of innocence and the risk of stigmatising people who ever consulted a psychiatrist.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a teacher works at a laptop in a modern classroom, with an interactive whiteboard in the background.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni teachers can enrol for free in a new stage of the DigiProf digital-skills programme

More than 8,000 teachers across the country — from kindergarten staff to high-school teachers and mentors — can join a new round of free digital training through the DigiProf programme, launched by the Ministry of Education with EU support. The training is free and runs in Romanian and Russian. For Ungheni district, which enters the school year with one of the country's largest teacher shortages, the bet is on the teachers already at the blackboard.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· News
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The students of the «Brain Power» team, with two mentors in orange T-shirts, behind their competition booth: trophies, diplomas and the flag of the Republic of Moldova on the table; in the background, balloons spelling 28675 and a banner with the name of the «Elada» high school.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Two teams from Ungheni district compete among 74 at an international robotics event in Istanbul

«Brain Power», the robotics team of the «Elada» theoretical high school in the village of Măcărești, and «Techno Storm», from the District Centre for Educational Support and Performance in Ungheni, are competing at the «Istanbul Premier Event» — an international FIRST Tech Challenge competition held from 26 to 28 June with 74 teams. Of the four Republic of Moldova teams in Istanbul, two come from Ungheni district. For «Brain Power», which won the Design Award at the national championship in Chișinău in February, this is a first international outing.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· News
Collage of four young women graduates, each labelled with her name and high school: Ionela Lefter and Anastasia Rusu — «Vasile Alecsandri» High School, Andreea Mușet — «Alexandr Pușkin» High School, and Doina Prepeliță — «Ion Creangă» High School.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Six Ungheni graduates earned straight 10s at the Baccalaureate: the country's second town, after Chișinău

After appeals, six graduates from the town of Ungheni finished the 2026 Baccalaureate with a top mark of 10, not four: Ionela Lefter, Andreea Mușet, Doina Prepeliță, Alexandrina Rîsîpanu, Anastasia Rusu and Nichita Țurea. Nationally the final figure is 114 candidates, up from 85 in the preliminary results. Among the country's towns, Ungheni comes right after Chișinău — and four of the six are from the same high school.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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A yellow school bus on a country road at dawn, with a rural school in the distance.
NATIONAL

The state will pay to bus teachers from merged schools. In 20 years, Ungheni district has lost 19 schools and nearly half its pupils

Teachers left without a school when their institution is reorganized will be bused to their new workplace at the state's expense — a measure the government approved on 24 June. It sounds technical, but it hits a nerve in a district like Ungheni: over two decades the number of schools fell from 65 to 46 and pupils from 20,121 to 11,171, and in 2026 the gymnasium in Buzduganii de Sus was shut down. Transport solves staff mobility, not the 73 teaching posts still vacant.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Moldovan leu banknotes and a payslip on a desk, in morning light.
NATIONAL

Public-sector pay would rise 10–30% from September: what the new law, still in consultation, would mean for the thousands of Ungheni people on the state payroll

The government has put out for public consultation the draft of a new public-sector pay law — increases of 10 to 30% for around 170,000 employees, from 1 September 2026. 'Up to 30%' is the ceiling, not the rule: the biggest rises go to the categories left furthest behind. For a district like Ungheni, where the average wage is almost 3,700 lei below the national average and thousands work in schools, hospitals and town halls, the reform hits the family budget directly. But it is still only a draft — and a parallel reform trims leave days.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a modern, bright school laboratory with desks, microscopes and digital screens, no people in the frame.
NATIONAL

€51.5 million for 20 model schools: Ungheni's “Mihai Eminescu” makes the EIB modernization list

The “Mihai Eminescu” Theoretical High School in Ungheni — one of the largest schools in the Centru region — is the only institution from the Ungheni district among the 20 that Moldova will modernize with European money, under a €51.5 million programme financed mainly by the European Investment Bank. Most of the money, €40 million, is a loan. The sum that will reach Ungheni has not been disclosed, and the school was already given an energy retrofit two years ago — a sign the new money targets what is inside. The backdrop: the district enters the new school year with 73 teaching vacancies, three of them at “Eminescu”.

Ion Calmis·19 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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