DIPLOMA-PASSPORT FOR LIFE
DIPLOMA-PASSPORT FOR LIFE

Summary/Abstract: Our study entitled "Diploma-passport for life" starts from the assumption that the public opinion in Romania gives great credit to the idea that in life you are "something" or "someone" according to the school and university degrees you hold. We aim to investigate students' and teachers' perceptions of the significance of the diploma, opinions, social and mental representations on the value of these documents, trust in the meritocratic ideas that the diploma attesting school and university merits is a predictor of success in life, represents our professional and social elevator, the guarantee of social success. Consequently, we will investigate opinions and attitudes about the value of the diploma in terms of access to the best possible social position, we will express points of view extracted from the domains literature and also from the analysis of relevant stakeholders opinions’ in regards to the value of the "diploma" in ensuring success in life. We will also draw attention to some skewedness, to some deviations materialized in the mentalities and practices of some institutions and people found in the university environment in the last decades in relation to obtaining the "diploma". It is about the mentality that the diploma can be obtained without merit, without effort, including plagiarism, fraud in various forms, by vitiating the results of contests and / or exams, by relaxing the methodologies of conducting high-valued evaluations, etc.

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