Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport (Romania)

Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport
Coat of arms of Romania
First:	Spiru Haret
Formation:
Incumbent since 2 June 2012	Ecaterina Andronescu (PSD)
Website	www.mects.ro

The Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport (Romanian: Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetǎrii , Tineretului şi Sportului) is one of the nineteen ministries of the Government of Romania.

On May 7, 2012, Ioan Mang, Senator of the PSD was appointed Minister of Education. On 10 May, 2012 he was accused of plagiarism on many of his academic papers and he resigned on 15 May, 2012 due to those plagiarism allegations. Liviu Marian Pop, the current Minister Delegate for Social Dialog, was appointed as temporary minister.

Former names of the Ministry

Over the years the Ministry changed its title. Initially it was called Ministry of Religion and Public Instruction (Romanian: Ministerul Religiei şi Instrucţiunii Publice), then Ministry of Public Instruction (Romanian: Ministerul Instrucţiunii Publice), then it changed to Ministry of Teaching (Romanian: Ministerul Învǎţǎmântului), Ministry of Teaching and Science (Romanian: Ministerul Învǎţǎmântului şi Ştiinţei), than changed back to Ministry of Teaching (Romanian: Ministerul Învǎţǎmântului). When Andrei Marga became Minister, it introduced the largest reform measures, starting with the name of the institution: Ministry of National Education (Romanian: Ministerul Educaţiei Naţionale). In 2000 the name was changed to Ministry of Education and Research (Romanian: Ministerul Educaţiei şi Cercetǎrii). This title was kept until April 2007, when it changed to Ministry of Education, Research and Youth (Romanian: Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetǎrii şi Tineretului). Since December 2008 the title is Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation (Romanian: Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetǎrii şi Inovării).

Ministers

Since 1989

Minister Title	No.	Name	Term start	Term end	Party	Cabinet
Minister of Teaching	1	Mihai Şora	December 1989	June 1990	none	Roman I
Minister of Teaching and Science	2	Gheorghe Ştefan	June 1990	October 1991	FSN	Roman II
						Roman III
	3	Mihail Golu	October 1991	November 1992	FSN	Stolojan I
Minister of Teaching	4	Liviu Maior	November 1992	December 1996	PDSR	Văcăroiu
	5	Virgil Petrescu	December 1996	December 1997	PNŢ-CD	Ciorbea I
Minister of National Education	6	Andrei Marga	December 1997	December 2000	PNŢ-CD	Ciorbea I
						Vasile I
						Isărescu I
Minister of Education and Research	8	Ecaterina Andronescu	December 2000	June 2003	PDSR/PSD	Năstase I
	9	Alexandru Athanasiu	June 2003	December 2004	PSD
	10	Mircea Miclea	December 2004	August 22, 2005	PD	Tăriceanu I
	11	Mihail Hărdău	August 22, 2005	April 2007	PD
Ministry of Education, Research and Youth	12	Cristian Adomniței	5 April 2007	8 October 2008	PNL	Tăriceanu II
	13	Anton Anton	8 October 2008	22 December 2008	PNL
Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation	(8)	Ecaterina Andronescu	22 December 2008	1 October 2009	PSD	Boc I
	-	Emil Boc	1 October 2009	23 December 2009	PD-L
Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport	14	Daniel Funeriu	23 December 2009	9 February 2012	PD-L	Boc II
	15	Cătălin Baba	9 February 2012	7 May 2012	PD-L	Ungureanu I
	16	Ioan Mang	7 May 2012	15 May 2012	PSD	Ponta I
	-	Liviu Pop	15 May 2012	2 June 2012	Ind.
	(8)	Ecaterina Andronescu	2 June 2012		PSD

External links

• EDU.ro
• GUV.ro