Romania: University and Politics in the 1980s. Case study: the University of Bucharest in the 1980s Cover Image

Romania: University and Politics in the 1980s. Case study: the University of Bucharest in the 1980s
Romania: University and Politics in the 1980s. Case study: the University of Bucharest in the 1980s

Author(s): Mirela Rotaru
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, History of Communism
Published by: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
Keywords: Admission exam; competition; assignment to production units; migrant families; mergers

Summary/Abstract: The presentation I am submitting to your attention focuses on how the University of Bucharest operated during the 1980’s, a very difficult period for Romania. As to be expected, the University of Bucharest, like the en-tire Romanian education system, took the full blow of communist exper-imental policies, reflecting quite accurately the general developments of the political system in Romania in the 1980s. The structure of Bucharest University, the curriculum, acceptance of the students via admission ex-ams as well as the process of assignment of graduates from University of Bucharest to production units in the 1980’s, are aspects of university life which were all affected by profound changes during the period subject to the research, leading to a genuine phenomenon in the Romanian society. The way these changes were reflected in the cultural mindset and the traumas generated by them are all points of interest addressed in my presentation.

  • Issue Year: 6/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 359-369
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English