National Anti-corruption Strategy to help root plagiarism

JusMin Pruna:New Anti-corruption Strategy provides introduction of tools to root plagiarism

Newsroom 12/08/2016 | 17:51

Justice Minister Raluca Pruna announced on Friday that the 2016-2002 National Anti-corruption Strategy (SNA) is focused on prevention, including the introduction of a system to discourage plagiarism.

“Through the new strategy we brought a change of paradigm, by focusing on prevention and on the responsibility at managerial level. We are resuming something that is also included in the previous strategy, but we believe managerial responsibility was not properly implemented, in the sense that any case that reaches ANI [National Integrity Agency], or worse, the DNA (National Anti-corruption Directorate) is clearly a management failure someone must answer for. Through the new Strategy, every manager of a public institution must take responsibility to implement internal policies and standards to prevent acts of corruption in the institution is heading,” Raluca Pruna said during a conference at Victoria Palace.

“If we want an educated Romania, a healthy Romania, it is absolutely necessary to do something in the Healthcare and in the Education [system]. The strategy proposes concrete measures. In Education we proposed that a transparent framework based on criteria or performance be adopted at a national level, to ensure the integrity of contests, for instance of general school inspectors, the introduction of a system to discourage plagiarism,” the Justice Minister explained.