More than 4,000 students from seven universities this February will be surveyed about their satisfaction with studies, but also about possible illegal practices existing in the university where they study. The results of the survey will be published in March, IPN reports.

Minister of Education and Research Dan Perciun told a press conference that students will be asked about their satisfaction with studies at the university, about certain immoral, illegal practices that exist or do not exist in educational institutions, if they know cases when one pays for grades or when teachers coerce students to purchase materials developed by them. The results of the survey will be published for each university apart.

“This will enable us to have a hierarchy, an image, a picture of integrity in higher education. Our objective here is to put pressure on universities to review certain practices if the survey finds that there are problems in those universities,” said Dan Perciun.

Also, a national software for checking tests for plagiarism will be promoted. Today, the minister says, things happen in a decentralized manner and there is no certainty that the academic standard is respected.