General Data About The Romanian Higher Education1 comment

By alex188
Posted on 27 Aug 2010 at 4:47pm

Legislative Frame, Structure of the Universities

Legislative Frame

In Romania education is considered to be a national priority, the entire educational system being protected by the Constitution and by organic laws (the Education Law), specialised laws (the Law on the Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions and Recognition of Diplomas, the Law on the Statute of the Teaching Staff), governmental decisions and orders of the Minister of Education and Research. These legislative acts laid the foundation for the reform of the Romanian education system and allowed its opening and upgrading as compared to the educational systems of the highly developed countries of the world.
The national system, which includes both public and private higher education institutions, has openness as its main feature, that is the transfer of a student from one educational form to the other is stipulated by law. The education system is organised on levels, ensuring the coherence and continuity of instruction, taking into consideration the age and individual peculiarities.

Structure of the Universities

In Romania higher education is provided in education and research institutions, universities, institutes, academies, conservatories and university colleges. The state higher education sector in Romania comprises 49 state higher education institutions with 324 faculties and other 20 private higher education institutions.
The higher education institutions comprise several faculties, university colleges, divisions, departments and small pilot units specialised in researches and microproduction.
The faculty represents the functional basic unit of the higher education institution and is organised by chairs or by departments. The teaching in a faculty is organised by specialities, years of study, student series and groups. The faculty includes the teaching and research personnel, the students and the auxiliary and administrative personnel. The faculties are individualised by their study programmes and field of specialisation.
The department is a sub-unit governed by the university Senate or by the Council of a faculty. The department carries out teaching, research, design etc. The chair is the basic structural unit of the faculty and it includes the teaching research, design and auxiliary personnel working in a specific academic field.

Read also
Advertisement

1 Comment

  1. Good Travel Offers said on January 6, 2011 at 18:57

    Man I like this article and it is so fabulous and I am gonna save it. One thing to say the Superb analysis this article has is greatly remarkable.Who goes that extra mile these days? Bravo. Just another suggestion you shouldget a Translator Application for your Worldwide Readers .

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.


127.0.0.1