Bucharest, 7 July 2008 – The portal initiated by the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth in collaboration with the specialists of SIVECO Romania, consists of one of the most dynamic virtual communities. Being already a vital source for acquiring complete and real-time information for pupils, teaching staff, parents and media, http://portal.edu.ro is registering an intense traffic during June and July. In this period are organized The National Admission and Distribution of Secondary School Graduates in High Schools and Vocational Schools, The Baccalaureate and The Teachers’ nomination upon vacant positions. According to http://www.trafic.ro, the SEI portal ranks 1st in the general top of the Romanian websites, as well as in the education category, registering over 2.2 million visitors over the last month and more than 68 million posted web pages.

The most visited portal’s websites are: http://forum.edu.ro/, http://admitere.edu.ro and http://bacalaureat.edu.ro.

On http://admitere.edu.ro, future high school pupils were able to check the schooling plan for 2008. The peak traffic was registered on the 26th and the 27th of June, after publishing the final results of the first phase of the The National Admission and Distribution of Secondary School Graduates in High Schools and Vocational Schools.

The star of these days remains http://bacalaureat.edu.ro, where all those interested may find out the partial results for the Baccalaureate. On the 5th of July 2008 the website registered a new record: 351.187 visitors in just one day.

The success of the forum http://forum.edu.ro is due to its users that are actively debating on the theme of exams and generally on education, but also to the specialists of SIVECO Romania, in charge with the site’s administration components and to the volunteers that moderate the discussions and help the forum’s users to get relevant answers to their questions.

The promptness of the answers and the quality of the information – continuously updated, have been the main arguments that have motivated users to post an impressive number of messages. Thus, the over already 125,000 users registered on the forum of the SEI portal posted more than 870.000 messages, with some moments when there were simultaneously over 4,700 users on the discussions forum.

The main objective of the Educational Portal SEI is to provide useful, real time information, but also to prepare the young people to cope with the future information society. http://portal.edu.ro meets the communication needs of people eager to find out novelties regarding the Romanian education system and remains still the most accessed source of information in the educational field.

In the last couple of days, the website of the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, http://www.edu.ro, also registered an impressive number of visitors, ranking 4th in the general top and 2nd in the Education category according to http://www.trafic.ro.