Quality in higher education
Author:Prof. univ. dr. Roxana Sîrbu, Lector univ. dr. Antonia Cristiana Scurtulescu, Lector univ. drd. Crina Raluca Bucur
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Keywords:Quality in Higher
Education; Quality Assurance; The World
Declaration on Higher Education for the 21st
Century
Abstract:
The European concern regarding
quality assurance in higher education
emerged in 1994-1995, when the European
Commission initiated a project
meant to experiment a common model of
education assessment in member states.
Currently, the European Commission has
become the coordinator of a European
network in the area of quality, the purpose
of which is to develop a generally acceptable
and viable common framework for all
the academic institutions in the EU. Quality
assurance in higher education can be
defined as a range of policies, systems and
processes meant to maintain and enhance
educational quality, relying on analyses
and comparisons between targeted and
actual results, with a view to identifying
the shortcomings. In Romania, the legal
framework for ensuring quality in higher
education is provided by Law no. 87/2006,
by Ordinance no. 3928/21.04.2005 issued
by the Ministry of Education and Research,
and by the Methodology of Foreign Assessment
of the Romanian Agency of Quality
Assurance in Higher Education.