University professor and prominent fighter for the national cause Nicolae Mătcaș, who started to lead the Ministery of Science and Education of the Republic of Moldova in the summer of 1990, when the impact of the Gorbachevist perestroika and the national movement, the old Soviet world was crumbling and a new order had started to be rebuild. In the ministry of more than three and a half years (1990-1994) Minister Mătcaș initiated and promoted several reforms that had the purpose to change the educational system of the Republic of Moldova from the state of deep Sovietization, by deideologizing, depoliticizing, demilitarizing, and creating a Romanian traditional educational system. The mentality is the area that accepts metamorphosis with reluctance so that the reforms have been difficult to accept by both camps responsible for education - students and teachers. However, the processes of the return of Moldovan education to the Romanian national traditions, a process defined by the reforms of Minister Matcaș - which were not always done well and especially were not always popular, but were irreversible for the further evolution of the higher education from Moldova.