Interior Dialogue

Reforming Romanian higher education Thursday, 7 February, 2008

In the article titled “Reforming Romanian higher education: the ivory tower and the entrepreneurial model” I argue that a separation between the evaluation of research and teaching in Romanian public universities is necessary to insulate the new generation of ambitious young Romanian researchers from the negative influence of the highly conservative privileged caste of obsolete faculty left behind by the communist regime.

Moreover, I analyze the broad features of the historical evolution of the University in Western Europe and America and argue that the distinction between the evaluation of research and education is a necessary next step in any reform aiming for a productive but also sustainable higher education and research system.