The legislative principles that govern Romanian education, such as ensuring equal opportunities and social inclusion and focusing education on its beneficiaries, are tested by the real-life situation of Roma children and young people. The pandemic has put pressure on the educational system. The closure of schools from March 2020 and the forced transfer of teaching activities to an online format are increasing the problems faced by Roma children and young people, in many cases blocking their access to education due to technological constraints. Family support is essential for primary school students and particularly in the case of digital learning. Many Roma families are not interested in spending money on education, especially if, in addition, they are losing income that older children bring home. For educators, Dewey’s (1944) prediction has come true: ‘If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow’ (p.167). For Roma students, digital education means no education as teachers are unable to connect with them. In Romanian schools today, the curriculum contains a vast amount of information but is not correlated with students’ ability to understand the sheer volume of knowledge taught and the purpose it serves. According to the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment’s (PISA’s) 2018 results, 41% of Romanian students are functionally illiterate (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2018). According to the results of a study based on an online questionnaire, which presupposes a degree of digital literacy, in 2020 32% of young people enrolled in pre-university education did not have exclusive individual access to a functional device (desktop, laptop, tablet); despite that online application supposed, also, that some of the family members have digital abilities. (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy [RIES], 2020) Through our study, we aim to reveal the series of current problems faced by the Roma ethnic group when attempting to access the educational system, presenting the perspectives of both educators and learners.

The general concept of non-territorial autonomy is analyzed in the specialized doctrine from various perspectives - considered, in fact, as its attributes – such as, cultural, linguistic, educational, traditional and religious perspectives- all considering the identity of the minority group that lives in a majority community.The present paper, part of a larger research, proposes, on the one hand, an analysis of the legal framework regarding non-territorial autonomy in Romania - from the perspective of the regulations regarding the establishment, organization and functioning of the authorities with their role in the elections and the administrative structures at a local level and, whilst considering the role played by the minority groups in this framework. According to the recently adopted New Administrative Code with big impact on minorities’ lives, another purpose of this research is to track how they are applied to the provisions on the linguistic rights of the national minorities included in Local Public Administrative Regulation. The objectives of this research will be, to use the data obtained in national reports and secondly, to making recommendations on the most efficient way in which the legislative norms regarding the protection of minorities can be applied, focusing on costs, human and financial resources

A fundamental act for the Romanian administration was adopted in July 2019, namely the Administrative Code, which came into the legal landscape with the declared intention of contributing to the modernization of public administration, systematizing the legislation in the field and bringing more unity to the organization of law enforcement and to its concrete execution. The text transposes in a clear and unitary form, a series of already existing regulations, in separate normative acts, but also adds new legal institutions that contribute to increasing the coherence of the administrative activity. This paper aims, on the one hand, at analyzing an institution that comes as a novelty in the Romanian regulatory framework, the administrative liability, as form of liability specific to administrative law and, on the other hand, it is a brief analysis of a form of liability missing from the text of the Code, namely the ministerial liability.