Office of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities organizes workshop on multilingual education in Moldova

The development of bilingual and multilingual education policies and programmes was the focus of a workshop organized by the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and hosted by Moldova’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Research in Chisinau on 28 November 2019.

Designed for the country’s education policymakers, the workshop presented findings from a mapping of the current initiatives in the field of multilingual education in Moldova and an analysis of the legislative and policy framework. The participants also discussed opportunities to support the broader dissemination of multilingual education models in Moldova.

Opening the workshop, Moldova’s Minister of Education, Culture and Research Corneliu Popovici said: “The limited knowledge of the state language among representatives of ethnic minorities remains one of the main hindrances towards strengthening interethnic relations in Moldova. It is therefore necessary to take urgent measures to ensure quality teaching of the Romanian language for the representatives of all ethnic groups and to promote linguistic diversity in society.”