Financing of extra-curricular education in the Republic of Moldova through the prism of consolidation of the right to education

Abstract

The development of social and economic relations in society, technological changes, the transformation of the needs of families and children lead to new challenges, stimulating the use of the competitive advantages of the national system of extra-curricular education and the search for new approaches and means. At the same time, the current mechanism for financing extra-curricular education institutions applied in the Republic of Moldova represents an obstacle not only to their upward evolution, but also to the continuous erosion of the teacher-staff potential and of the material and technical base of extra-curricular education institutions, with a strong negative impact on the quality of extra-curricular education. This article aims to analyse extra-curricular education institutions in the Republic of Moldova in terms of their funding and to make recommendations to improve the financial mechanism so as to respect the right of children and young people to education. The complexity of the social, economic and financial phenomena studied required the application of the research methods and techniques at both quantitative and qualitative levels. The complexity of the financial phenomenon related to the field of extra-curricular education is investigated by the use of statistical-mathematical methods. In particular, the analysis of the dynamics and structure of the budgets of extra-curricular education institutions was used. A special place is the factorial analysis and the comparative analysis associated with the budgetary process at the level of extra-curricular educational institutions. As sources of information that are based on the research, the following are to be mentioned: the legal and regulatory framework governing the activity of extra-curricular education institutions and their budgetary process; the budgets of institutions of extra-curricular education and other financial-accounting documents; interviews, discussions at the level of extra-curricular education institutions (representatives of the management of extra-curricular education institutions) and their local public administration and central government.