The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports has circulated a draft project introducing substantial changes to the regular certification procedure for public school teachers, aimed at more clearly defining and regulating all organizational details related to the process. The document proposes a fundamental revision of the entire procedure for test compilation, exam administration, and potential appeals, making the entire process more controllable and transparent.
According to the new project, certification tests will no longer be compiled manually, but will be generated automatically based on a specially created unified electronic database, which will incorporate tasks developed by a working group formed by order of the ministry. The system will generate a separate test for each participant, taking into account their assessed professional development needs and level, and the tests and the individual composition of the group compiling them are not subject to publication.
Exams will be conducted exclusively in an electronic format according to a pre-approved schedule and under strict rules that will rule out the use of communication means or any external materials. Participant entry into the room will cease ten minutes before the discussion, and in case of violating established requirements or discovering prohibited items, the teacher's work will be immediately invalidated and receive a zero score.
To successfully overcome the certification, it is necessary to score a minimum of sixty percent, and the overall average indicator will not be sufficient if the result of any individual section falls below that threshold. The project also clearly defines the cases when, due to failing to overcome the corresponding threshold or failing to appear at the exam, a teacher may be deemed non-compliant with their occupied position, implying further serious personnel decisions.
Reforms in the educational system require not only new standards, but also invulnerable evaluation mechanisms that will rule out subjective factors. The automation of the certification process and the use of electronic databases are an important step aimed at reducing the possibilities of human intervention.
At the same time, maintaining the strict 60 percent threshold and the requirement for evaluation by individual sections show that the ministry aims to identify real professional gaps. In the coming months, it will become clear how prepared this system is for technical overload and how emerging appeal issues will be resolved.
