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WORK MEETING – ROMANIA’S COMMITMENTS AS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA AND THEIR IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING

Mirabela Amarandei — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:33:23 +0000

UEFISCDI continued the series of meetings concerning Romania’s commitments as an EHEA member state and their impact on higher education financing.

A number of topics have been developed in the meeting held on 27 – 28 June 2013, such as: qualifications frameworks, employability or recognition. In se second day of the meeting, the project experts debated and agreed on the final conclusions and recommendations in regard to the Bologna Process action lines and their implementation at national level.

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ROMANIA’S ROLE AND COMMITMENTS IN THE BOLOGNA PROCESS – OPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE TRENDS

Mirabela Amarandei — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:24:29 +0000

The meeting – organized in the context of a broader event, the National Education Conference – stirred meaningful discussions concerning Romania’s commitments regarding the Bologna Process and future actions at national / institutional level deriving from these.
In the beginning, the general director of UEFISCDI, Adrian Curaj, gave a brief description of the “Higher Education Evidence Based Policy Making: a necessary premise for progress in Romania” project. The presentation emphasized the general project objectives, such as increasing the institutional capacity at national / university level, improving the efficiency of the data collection system for higher education, elaborating higher education analyses for future public policies.
Various experts involved in the specific project activity on Romania’s commitments in the EHEA shared their experiences on this topic. Thus, Mihai Korka expanded on student centered learning, while Ligia Deca highlighted the social dimension of higher education and recognition of prior learning.
Others people present in the meeting joined the discussions, outlining the relevance that an analysis on Romanian’s commitments in the EHEA poses, in order to underpin future public policies in higher education.

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MUTUAL LEARNING WORKSHOP – DEVELOPING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND EQUITY AND SOCIAL COHESION

Mirabela Amarandei — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:22:02 +0000

On 16 – 17 May 2013, a team of national and international experts took part in a Mutual Learning Workshop on developing a multi-dimensional analysis of Romanian higher education institutions (internationalization and equity and social cohesion). The event was organized in Timisoara and also included study visits at West University of Timisoara and “Politehica” University of Timisoara.

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MUTUAL LEARNING WORKSHOP – ROMANIA’S COMMITMENTS AS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA AND THEIR IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING

Mirabela Amarandei — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:32:11 +0000

On 13 – 14 May 2013, the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) organized a Mutual Learning Workshop on Romania’s commitments as an EHEA member state and their impact on higher education financing. The experts involved debated the national commitments in terms of quality assurance, student centered learning and transparency tools.
The workshop was organized as part of a series of meetings specific for Activity 7.7 of the “Higher Education Evidence Based Policy Making: a necessary premise for progress in Romania” project.

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MUTUAL LEARNING WORKSHOP – ROMANIA’S COMMITMENTS AS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA AND THEIR IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING

Mirabela Amarandei — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:46:41 +0000

The third Mutual Learning Workshop on Romania’s commitments as an EHEA member state and their impact on higher education financing was organized within the framework of project activity 7.7.
The event took place on 22 – 23 March 2013, bringing together former Romanian Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) representatives and members of the 2010 – 2012 BFUG Secretariat, hosted by Romania.
The meeting started with a brief presentation on the topic and the background materials from Ligia Deca, coordinator of Module IV, and Liviu Matei, coordinator of the study on Romania’s commitments in the EHEA. The two outlined the importance of such meetings for the elaboration of a comprehensive study designed to assist the policy makers in their decision making process. Further on, Cristina Fit described the main elements of the analysis on internationalization of education and mobility, with an emphasis on national measures.
The experts present in the meeting debated the Bologna Process Ministerial Communiqués, in order to come up with proposals of recommendations to fully implement them at national level. Thus, the measures taken so far by specialized institutions were outlines, as well as future actions to increase the attractiveness of Romanian universities at global level. Issues like student and staff mobility, incoming versus outgoing mobility or the 2012 EHEA Mobility Strategy have also been approached.
The second day of the Mutual Learning Workshop stemmed new debates amongst the experts on the given topic, but also on the structure and content of the mobility and internationalization chapter. The experts agreed to continue the discussions in the future, in order to finalize the general study on Romania’s commitments in the EHEA.