QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: FROM EVALUATING PERFORMANCES TO EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF THE STUDY PROGRAMMES

Abstract

The curricular reform, politics programmes, quality management, strategies and procedures for ensuring the quality of the programmes of initial and continuous training are syntagms that describe the changes that occurred in the Romanian higher education by the implementation of the Bologna System and the reaccreditation of universities by aligning them to the European standards of quality in education.The study wants to emphasize the demands of the training for the teaching career in the context of the new institutional structures promoted by the European education, the formation paradigms/ models proposed and that are linked with the theoretical attempts to reconsider the role the teacher’s of building a new professional identity. Based on using the analysis of the products of activity and of school documents, the conversation, the questionnaire, the case study, the psycho-pedagogical observation we made a critical analysis of the main indicators of the quality of the programmes of teachers’ initial and continuous training. We suggested new directions and procedures of eliminating/ diminishing  the shortcomings and we also suggested ways of improving the quality of the formative programmes and activities.

Key words: quality management, European education, teachers’ training

SCS_11_2007_27