Medical Check Up On Bucharest Romania

Is university education in the Russian State and Romania bad?

You do realise that Russia and Romania are two different countries, right ? Moreover, they're not even neighbouring countries, nor do they even have the same or related language (Russian is slavic, Romanian is Latin-based, similar to Italian).The only thing these two countries have in common is that Romania used to be communist up until 1989, and that communist happened in Romania with a great deal of help from Russia ( which sort of happened pretty much all around Easter Europe). University education in Romania is lax. If you want to study and learn, you have a lot of leeway and you can actually do a lot of things and develop yourself very well. If not, nobody truly bothers you about school nowadays. This wasn't always the case, but the past 15 years have brought about a lot of negative changes in education. There's abundantly more spots in universities, a lot more private universities and a lot more money being spent ( and therefore to be made) with universities. Being accepted in an university ( which were only state-funded back in the day and highly selective/competitive) used to be a huge deal, similar to getting a phd nowadays. Entrance exams have gone down in terms of difficulty and frequency, most universities only accept you based on the grades you had in high school and there isn't much, if any, competition to be had.The system shifted from offering high performing students excellent education and resources to offering a large mass of students average education and limited resources. The entry bar is set low, so is what a graduate can do after they graduate. An university degree is a common-place requirement on the labour market, however, most employers completely disregard that degree and its qualifications because they "all know" you don't know anything useful. There's students that are passionate and driven, there's students ( a lot) that go abroad, there's a lot of smart people doing a lot of smart work. I'd argue there's significantly more being taught (even though taught poorly) in Romania than in other places, but you only need to look at some data and figure that one out. I'd say we're doing pretty well for a country that was an actual democracy for almost 27 years. But there's so much that could be improved ! In fact, I'm actively working on a project that will change everything. Nothing original, the beauty is in its execution.

Is Romania bad for foreign students who come to get their degree?

I’ve worked with various foreign students in Romania for at least 20 years and gathered perhaps at least 25 different nationalities. Perhaps one important question each of them has to answer is this: Do you want to get a degree or do want to be given a degree? In other words, are you willing to take responsibility over your personal formation and education or not?The Romanian Educational system has fundamental imperfections both at a structural level and at an interpersonal relationships level. Yet when somebody really wants to educate herself/himself there are a lot of advantages over the Western systems.The Romanian Education System expose without discrimination all the participants to its imperfections: the teachers, the local students, the foreign students. Moreover, some of these participants amplify these imperfections. Still, a lot from these categories are doing good and hard work … usually not because of the system, but in spite of it; and while there is usually no point in fighting the system (too rotten), you should be aware and defend yourself.So, the bottom line sounds like this: what do you want?Do you want to get a degree while avoiding all learning? You are free to try …[There is a saying: “the hardest years ‘till you get in the third year are the first ten years”] [in Romanian: “Primii 10 ani sunt grei, până ajungi în anul trei”]Do you want to honestly learn and educate yourself? For sure there is a path. It will not be perfect, it will not be easy, it will not be short and perhaps it will not be what you initially expected for, but it’s possible. Moreover, once achieved, it will be internationally valuable and at a significantly lower price than the similar paths from the Western systems.

What are the good and bad things of Romania?

I’ll give it a shot. My credentials tell you what my experience is.I’ll start with the good:Rapidly advancing economy (fastest in Europe)Natural beauty in many forms, from the mountains (Carpathians), to the DanubeSome very beautiful cities (Brașov, Cluj, hell to some, myself included, even Bucharest is beautiful)Kind people who make immigrants feel welcomeFast internetSecond lowest taxes in EULow cost of livingLow crimeAnd the bad:Low wages outside of finance and software development, although rapidly increasing like the economyCorruption does exist, although it has been reduced over the last few years especially. There is a real chance that at some point you may have to pay a bribe if you deal with the government a lot. I’ve not had to in my year so farThere can be too much bureaucracy in some placesTo address some of the other points:The stray dogs were dealt with, you don’t really see them any more in BucharestThe wages are a lot higher now than 300€, closer to 500€ on averageEDIT:This answer was written in 2017 when the average wage was just below 500€ net. This has now increased to 635€ net on average[1]Corruption has been reducedGroceries are western priced, but so are groceries in all of EuropeI only see a few people selling things at the sides of roads like they say and it’s normally stupid shit like things that stop your car alarm when you don’t have your seatbelt on. Not stolen phones. Things like this have been cleaned upRomania historically has been quite poor, and was communist, so sure there are ways things are unpolished. But it is a beautiful country and personally I love living here. Things have been improving rapidly.Footnotes[1] Romania records double-digit average net wage rise for third year in a row