The Committee on Education, Public Associations and Mass Media reviewed reports on the implementation of three state target programs in the field of culture and education. They will be presented to the deputy corps at a meeting of the PMR Supreme Council in the near future.

Deputies Igor Buga, Andrei Safonov and Pavel Shinkaryuk proposed expanding the provisions of the laws "On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development" and "On Librarianship". The innovations if adopted at the plenary session will affect movie theaters and libraries.

Educational organizations of all levels are going to receive the right to independently develop and approve educational programs. Certification and accreditation will be combined into one procedure. The corresponding package of legislations was initiated by deputies of the Committee on Education, Public Associations and Mass Media Igor Buga, Andrei Safonov and Pavel Shinkaryuk.

Budget graduates who have received higher medical education are required to work for 3 to 5 years upon completion of their studies, according to the current legislation. Deputies Galina Antyufeeva and Oleg Petrik proposed reducing this period to 3 years.

A number of relevant legislations that will be included in the agenda of the next plenary session were discussed by deputies in the course of the meeting of the Committee on Education, Public Associations and the Media.