Higher education in interwar Romania: from overcrowded universities to intellectual unemployment Cover Image

Învăţământul superior în România interbelică: de la „supraaglomerarea universităţilor” la „șomaj intelectual”
Higher education in interwar Romania: from overcrowded universities to intellectual unemployment

Author(s): Dragoş Sdrobiş
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: meritocracy; social promotion; overcrowded universities; intellectual unemployment; media debate

Summary/Abstract: The present article’s goal is to reveal the Romanian universities malfunctions’ in recruiting and guiding the students towards specific higher education specializations. Incapable of becoming a social selector and thus a mechanism of social promotion, the university developed itself into a source of intellectual unemployment in an agrarian society. Thus, it is reasonable to create a causal link between intellectual unemployment and the ascent of the nationalistic political trends in the 1930s, as it was the legionary movement.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2013
  • Issue No: 175
  • Page Range: 24-35
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian