Iohannis: Technical education, one of main components of educational system connected to labor market

President Klaus Iohannis stressed on Monday in Iasi that "technical education is in many ways one of the main components of an educational system connected to the labor market and connected to economic realities." 

The head of state stated, at a ceremony marking the 205th anniversary of the first Romanian-language engineering class and the opening of the academic year at "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University that "the graduates of technical universities are very much sought after by the large companies." 

"The existence of a university of this profile is often an element that attracts investment in a region. As evidence, the big economic growth poles are concentrated in university cities such as Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara and, yes, more and more Iasi," said Iohannis. 

He also stated that "one of the most important missions of universities is to generate new ideas." 

On the other hand, Iohannis appreciated that Iasi Polytechnic graduates "contributed over time to the completion of the national unity established politically in 1918". 

"The engineers trained here played a significant role in building the necessary infrastructure to make the Union a living reality. They helped penetrate the Carpathians with roads and railways, a seemingly insurmountable issue now, in the 21st century. They also contributed to the economic diversification of a state that was born eminently agrarian, thus facilitating the industrialization, making economic activity efficient and the modernization of agriculture", added the president.