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Social and economic dynamics at national level have led to significant changes in the Romanian educational system. As a result, schools and communities, especially in rural areas, face a series of challenges that create real needs among education provision beneficiaries. To help overcome those challanges, school and communities can benefit from specialized support under some projects/programmes.

The project on training of pre-university staff, "Technical Assistance to Support NCTPE", provides teachers and managers in rural high-schools with an excelelnt opportunity to develop the skills they require to ensure those challenges are met and that students are prepared to contribute to the development of the local and national economic environment.

This is the first PHARE project in Romania to focus exclusively on teacher continuing training. The project was developed and is being implemented by The National Centre for Staff Training and Staff Development in Pre-University Education (NCPTE). Click here to find out more about NCPTE.

The project has a strong focus on the capacity building of NCTPE which will ensure the sustainability of changes introduced by the project. With that end in view, the project Technical Assistance works in partnership with NCPTE, as specialized institution, to reach the EC and international standards.

Another objective taken into account was the collaboration with rural high schools and continuous training programmes, supported by a national network of local implementation agents. The project aims to match the training needs of teaching staff from rural areas with the offer of training providers, including offers that might take the form of providing training packs that approach the latest active and interactive learning methods.

Other important elements of the project include:

• a grant scheme component which will allow all teachers from Romanian rural high schools to acquire 90 transferrable professional credits by attending accredited continuous training programmes;

• a comprehensive set of publications to be used in high-schools to carry out continuous training activities. These will include Training Needs Analysis (TNA), active learning methodology, career counselling, school management and local needs analysis, and a teacher guide on School Based Curriculum to better match education and training with local employment opportunities.

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