Europeanisation of Higher Education in the Area of Administrative Sciences in Romania

Matei, Lucica (2006): Europeanisation of Higher Education in the Area of Administrative Sciences in Romania. Published in: Lessons and Recommendations for Improvement: Central and Eastern European Public Administration and Public Policy (September 2007): pp. 87-130.

Abstract

The paper aims to reveal some relevant issues about Europeanisation of higher education in the area of administrative sciences in Romania. Europeanisation as global process in the European space is supported and promoted through a specific legislative framework as well as relevant institutional mechanisms. Since 2005, by applying the provisions of Bologna Declaration, the whole configuration of the Romanian higher education has significantly changed.

Based on comprehensive empirical researches, the paper approaches and describes both "the Europeanism degree" for the content of the educational process in bachelor, master, doctoral studies in administrative sciences and the social perception of the phenomena and processes deriving from and influencing the Romanian public administration reform, training needs for each academic cycle, graduates' insertion in the labour market.

The data and interpretations provide the basis of a comparative analysis of higher education in the area of administrative sciences in NISPAcee members as well as the opportunity for further development of researches and regional debates on this topic

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Europeanisation, administrative sciences, higher education
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption; A - General Economics and Teaching > A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics > A22 - Undergraduate; N - Economic History > N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy > N30 - General, International, or Comparative; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I21 - Analysis of Education

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