Avatarurile unei instituţii de învăţământ particular: Şcoala Superioară de Ştiinţe de Stat, 1871-1948
The avatars of private educational institutions: the State Higher School of Sciences, 1871-1948

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to circumscribe the role played by the Higher School of Governance (Şcoala Superioară de Ştiinţe de Stat) in the Romanian society, as well as its importance for the development of administrative and political sciences. To this end, as a necessary step towards an explanation to the School’s place in the Romanian education and to the status of both the students and the alumni, I shall analyze the key moments of the institution’s history. The continuous survival of the institution for almost 77 years reveals, as we shall see, its remarkable ability to adapt to different social, political, economic and cultural contexts. One must also consider the teachers and the school’s leadership, the two layers conferring prestige and stability to the establishment. Due to the fact that many of the school’s teachers were well/known at that time and were often the best in their field of study, and because graduating was a difficult thing to achieve, for specific historical periods one may consider that the diplomas issued by this institution had significant value.

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