Romanian education from the perspective of international standards and indicators

• Author: Lucian Radu
• Position: Department of Foreign Languages, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
• Pages: 59-66

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 8 (57) No. 2 - 2015

ROMANIAN EDUCATION FROM THE

PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL

STANDARDS AND INDICATORS

Lucian RADU1

Abstract: This paper is meant to analyse the efficacy and efficiency of

Romanian education, taking into account international standards, to

compare it with the most competitive European and especially American

systems to find out the discrepancies, to look for the main causes and to

present a comparative approach in order to find common solutions to the

common problems.

Key words: efficiency, international indicators, Economy, society of the

future, international standards.

1 Department of Foreign Languages, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.

1. Introduction

Besides the fact that educational

problems cannot be solved in a valid

universal manner, they must be studied

through a specific research that transcends

national limits and extends to some forms

of education belonging to other countries.

The study of educational forms, which

appeared in other countries, arose from a

permanent necessity of improving

education systems, which often have to

face common fundamental problems.

Regarding to the perspective of

transatlantic relations, the American

educational paradigm represents a notable

model in the age of globalization and

internationalisation of the labour market..

2. Hypothesis

Thus, a study has been conducted,

beginning with the hypothesis according to

which the American educational paradigm

represents a desirable model for the

Romanian educational reform at a

declarative level, even though the

educators, students and their parents do not

know enough neither about the specificity

of this paradigm nor about the concrete

context in which it operates. The study

took place during February-June 2014,

with the participation of 700 subjects from

Braşov.

3. The structure of the investigated

group of subjects

The group of subjects differentiates in the

following areas:

• Age: 24.6% (172) are included in the

category of age between 15-20 years, 25%

(176)-in the one between 20-30 years, 41.7%

(292)-in the one between 30-50 years, and the

rest of 8.6% (60) - in the category of subjects

who are over 50 years. It can be observed that

the majority of the subjects belong to the

category of age between 30-50 years; their