Recognition of Diplomas and Teaching Practices in the Romanian Universities

Abstract

It is of general interest now in Europe the focus on competences acquired in education in generaland in higher education in particular. In this respect, there are projects developed in Romania aiming to meetlabour market needs with curricula contents in the frame of the European Qualification Framework (EQF).The paper proposes a special view on the subject, with a study on how the teachers may encounter, in themiddle, the approaches envisaging the requirements of companies – on one side, and students’ skills – on theother side. The paper subject is a follow-up of studies undertaken in the frame of a project, supported bystructural funds and developed in an international partnership at Danubius University, on how companies andstudents meet requirements of EQF. Envisaging teachers’ role in the required changes toward harmonisingcompetencies to job market needs, the paper identifies the technical and relational aspects through directinvestigation (questionnaires) and process analysis of what regards teachers’ involvement in that change. Thepaper refers to new teaching paradigm required when passing from “traditional” academic teaching to thecompetences centred education, and to the market needs, based on new educational approaches but also onthe current view of teachers on the process. The paper comes with and added value to the subject, aimingeducation processes and education style changes that can be now implemented in Romanian universities.

Keywords

• teaching practice
• recognition of qualifications
• professional competence