From Standardization to Diversification of the Romanian Higher Education Institutions by Quality Strategic Approach
From Standardization to Diversification of the Romanian Higher Education Institutions by Quality Strategic Approach

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian universities are substantially similar in terms of organizational structures, institutional missions and strategic plans, faculty, educational process and so on. The homogeneity of higher education system represents an important theme because it may have, in practice, undesirable effects on university autonomy. Over the longer term, a uniform education system tends to become more inflexible and, as a whole, less efficient. The paper is focus on the diversification of higher education institutions in the specific context of the Romanian university system by integrating the quality strategic approach in the global strategy of the Higher Education Institution (HEI). The present paper brings in highlight the nature of relations between creativity/ diversity and standardization/ predictability and it tries to show that the relation creativity/diversity–standardization/predictability acquires new meanings and dichotomous issue is eliminated, in the context of Quality strategic approach. This research will try to demonstrate that implementation of the quality strategic approach model that we propose, is able to lead to: a) Allowing more varied learning options for students and adapting more strong to their needs; b) Allowing a higher level of flexibility to universities to changes that occur at the social level; c) Providing opportunities for social mobility, more appropriate cover of needson different labor markets (e.g. demand for different specialties), and providing the necessary opportunities for innovation (van Vught 2009).

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