标题：Assessment of the Romanian Tertiary Educational System in the Context of the Economic Crisis. Lessons Learned and Lifelong Strategy Tools for Improvement
摘要：AbstractThere is no question that the economic matters ensuing from the late and not over crisis, have been heavily debated in conferences and materials of specialty. Nevertheless, the effects of the crisis on the educational system have been less studied or perceived as a lifelong learning tool in dealing with future moments of systemic changeovers. Any deep economic crisis has undeniable serious rippling effects on the social and educational fabric of society. All the more so, when the focus of the present study is on a country struggling to fit itself into the mold of progressive societies. Choosing upfront to look at the tertiary/university system of education (as additionally in contact with the later developments of human life), and more precisely at the investments in the public system of education and at the investments in the reconfiguration of the core competences obtained by students as direct consequence of the variation in the labor force sector, the present paper examines from quantitative and qualitative perspectives the changes and re-settings of the Romanian tertiary educational system, with the declared aim to trace and explain what brought about the change, how has it altered the educational system and how can one use gained experience in the future as promising tool for lifelong learning strategies if an institution or an individual decides to do so.
关键词：tertiary education;economic crisis;quality of life
