Universities open the 2025-2026 academic year on Monday, with inaugural ceremonies being organized in several higher education institutions across the country.
In Bucharest, opening festivities for the new academic year will take place at the "Ferdinand I" Military Technical Academy, the "Carol I" National Defense University, the Academy of Economic Studies, the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, and the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
In the country, similar ceremonies are scheduled in the military higher education institutions of the Ministry of National Defense, at the Petrol- Gaze University in Ploiesti, the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iasi, the Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timisoara, the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University in Iasi, and the Ovidius University in Constanta.
The National Alliance of Student Organizations in Romania (ANOSR) called last Wednesday on the entire student community to protest on September 29, starting at 4:00 p.m., in Victoriei Square, in reaction to the normative acts regulating some fiscal-budgetary measures whose provisions "negatively affect" the quality of the educational act and "restrict" access to education.
"From the beginning, ANOSR strongly criticized the attitude of the government to adopt austerity measures without consulting interested actors such as students, teachers and pupils, but also the ignorance shown towards all the actions by which the students demonstrated that cutting rail transport and the scholarship fund are insignificant for reducing the budget deficit and that they represent a direct attack by the Romanian Government on the basic needs that students have for continuing their educational path, the Government forgetting that the right to education is a right guaranteed by the Romanian Constitution," ANOSR wrote on its Facebook page.
According to the organization, cutting transportation facilities and the scholarship fund has a negligible economic impact, but produces negative effects from a social point of view, especially affecting students in vulnerable socio-economic situations.
In the opinion of ANOSR, these cuts do nothing but increase and encourage students who cannot afford to support themselves during their studies to abandon the higher education system.
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