Finances: EU financing from the European Social Fund - 85% - 47,282,413.69 €;
M.Ed.C.T - 10% - 5,562,636.90 € - co financing; 4% - 2,225,054.76 € co financing of local administration - ; 1% - 556,263.69 € - contribution of private partners.
Cost-benefit analysis for solution 3 “New Education”
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Cost-efficiency analysis
Costs / student according to solution 1 “Non-governmental School”: ~ 2132 €;
Costs / student according to solution 2 “School Mediator”: ~ 262 €;
Costs / student according to solution 3 “New Education”: ~ 193 €, 28.95 € of which is Romanian contribution.
1. ● “School after School”- assisted learning and remedial learning;
€ 272,,221.95 - input €
26,993,119.02 - Input 2. ● “Healthy Mind in A Healthy Body” € 1,088,888.78 - input
3. ● “No Juvenile Delinquency” € 258,610.73 – input 4. ● “By School Bus in front of The House” € 15,491.840 - input 5. ● “Helping Families and raising Awareness” € 2.177,777.56 - input
6. ● “School Mediator” € 7,703,780 - input
O2 2. ● “Healthy Mind in A Healthy Body” € 980,000 - input
3. ● “We Live on The School Campus/Boarding School/Family Home/Special School”
€ 5,172,221.95 - input 4. ● “Non-Governmental School” € 618,107.56 - input 5. ● “Socializing and Teaching Children at the
Children’s Palace/Club”
€ 5,444.39 – Input 6. ● “Helping Families and Raising Awareness” € 3,615,110.76 - input 7. ● “By School Bus in front of The House” € 11,730,381.95 - input 8. ● “School after School”- assisted learning and
remedial learning
€ 299,444.39 - input
9. ● “School Mediator” € 5,470,577.56 - input
10. ● “No Juvenile Delinquency” € 258,610.73 - input 11. ● "Coordinating Unit for Implementing The
Identified Solution.
€ 381,110.73 - input
Table 1: The “New Education” Policy Budget 8. Conclusions.
Early school leaving is a problematic socio-human phenomenon occurring in Romania as well as in other EU countries, requiring adequate strategies and policies in order to prevent early school leaving and bring early school leavers back to school. The measures aim at ensuring the access to quality education for everybody and basic skill acquisition which should sustain the integration of vulnerable groups in society and on the labour market. The most important ones are the educational programmes “Second Chance”,
“School after School” or “The Non-Governmental School”. In this purpose, it is essential that special attention be given to young persons emerging from disadvantaged social categories such as the Roma community, young persons leaving the child protection public
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The proposal put forward by the “New Education” public policy (solution 3) – an integrated and collective approach to early school leaving in Romania targets the accomplishment of the objectives regarding the prevention of early school leaving and its reduction from 14.9% to 10% by the end of 2012 by using a budget with EU structural funds-85% and co financing-15% for the implementation of an action plan, useful and attractive “personalized” programmes by intervention teams made up of numerous “social”
actors – specialists in their domain and local representatives. This is the best solution compared to solution 1 “Non-Governmental School” and solution 2 “The School Mediator”
previously presented in this paper due to its efficiency and efficacy. By preventing and reducing early school leaving, the benefits for the children in the target group and their chances of having a job in the future increase because they will acquire the basic skills and necessary knowledge ad this will help integrate on the labour market. “Thus, the prevention and reduction of this phenomenon will provide for decreased unemployment on the one hand, and, on the other hand, will contribute to the improvement of work qualification and, consequently, of the competitiveness of the human capital in Romania.”¹
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Operational 2007 - 2013, adopted by the Commission Decision C (2007) 5811/22.11.2007, page 86
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