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Minister of National Education Liviu Pop, who attended on Monday the opening of the new school year in Viseul de Jos village, told the parents and children present that a good quality education means well-trained teachers, appropriate up-to-date school curriculum and infrastructure. "Today, we included on the agenda the biggest training programme of the teaching personnel, over 60,000 teachers will be informed on European funds for the new school curriculum. In the next two years we will have all teachers trained to teach children, in the next two years we will have internet in every school, we have European money for this, and the Romanian school in the pre-university area has the chance to reinvent itself in the next two years, the confidence in the Romanian school will be restored and this thing can be made only by having the three main directions: school curriculums that we will draw-up, highly qualified teachers and a material resource which will be very well set up," Liviu Pop stated.
He also mentioned that he wanted to participate in the opening of the new school year where he had shaped up in his early years of education. After the festivities, the Education Minister toured the classroom where he learned and, for a couple of moments, he sat at the desk where he used to sit while living in Viseul de Jos. Minister Liviu Pop discussed with members of the teaching staff, but also with the children's parents who attended the festivity. On Monday morning he also attended the opening of a recently built kindergarten in Viseul de Jos and a sports hall in Petrova village.
President of Maramures County Council Gabriel Zetea and Chief Inspector of Maramures County School Inspectorate Maria Moldovan, Secretary of State with the Transport Ministry Dragos Titea, Deputy of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Gheorghe Simion and Mayor of Viseul de Jos Gavrila Simon also attended the festivities alongside Minister Liviu Pop.
