In the media

Romania’s strict anti-corruption measures targeting exam cheating led to a drop in overall pass rates from 80% to 43%, with low-income students experiencing a 14.3% decline compared to 8.1% for wealthier peers. Wealthier students exploited the system by paying poorer peers to bribe invigilators. The campaign, involving CCTV and severe penalties, unintentionally widened the inequality gap.

Tuition for university studies has been growing steadily in Romania in the last few years, according to the National Alliance of Student Organizations in Romania (ANOSR). Many of the taxes paid by students at 21 universities in the country are "unjustified, borderline illegal or simply illegal".

Corruption and survival-level bribery may have been endemic in the communist era, but laws have been rewritten since 1989 in an effort to combat the problem. Nevertheless, the institutions are not strong enough to deal with corruption and still everybody pay bribes to doctors, teachers and to officials.