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The state is turning exams, diploma recognition, and licensing into a self-financing model.

2026-03-31 15:10:00, Aktualitet CNA

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The state exam, the recognition of diplomas obtained abroad, the Matura diploma and some of the key education documents are expected to move to a new self-financing model, according to the draft law "On the Establishment of the National Agency for Educational Services", filed in the Parliament.

Beyond the creation of a new institution, the draft marks a turning point in the way the state administers the links that determine an individual's entry into university, the profession, and the formal labor market.

The new agency will function as a public legal entity in the form of an autonomous agency and as a self-financing public institution, which brings diplomas, licensing and equivalency increasingly closer to the logic of a measurable and chargeable administrative service.

According to the report, the new structure will absorb the functions currently performed by the Center for Educational Services, but with a broader legal basis and financial autonomy. This means that national exams, state matura, state exam for regulated professions, recognition of diplomas and relevant documentation will be offered within a single portal of educational services, where efficiency, standardization and management of funds become part of the same model. The draft itself emphasizes as a principle the efficient, effective and transparent administration of financial funds, clearly linking the reform to a logic of economic management of the service.

The most direct economic impact is related to entry into regulated professions. The organization of the state exam for teachers, pharmacists, nurses and other professions that require licensing will move to this new autonomous model. In practice, the state is placing in a single structure all the filters that measure the transition from diploma to practice, making the administrative cost of this transition clearer.

Another important link is the recognition of foreign diplomas, a process that takes on particular importance in the context of the return of professionals from abroad and the mobility of human capital. By placing this service under a self-financing agency, the draft law creates the basis for diploma equivalence to be treated as a public service with clear standards, deadlines and administrative costs, reducing the overlaps that currently exist between sectoral laws and guidelines.

The draft also affects the most sensitive link in the pre-university system, as the state matriculation diploma and other education completion documents will be issued by the new institution responsible for educational services./ Monitor Magazine