摘要：Higher education institutions are currently faced with a dilemma: how to preserve the quality of education they provide, and therefore how to survive in the conditions of budget cuts, increasing com petition, decreasing school population, as well as quality and transparency requirements. No higher education institution can afford today to maintain a large teaching staff, inefficient in terms o f teaching and research. This is an argument in favour of a teacher evaluation model in higher education, which should be effective, to ensure quality and, at the same time, to help teachers develop and refine. The "George Bacovia" University of Bacau has in view such a model. In evaluating the academic staff, it is required a shift from summative assessments (out of ad ministrative needs) to the formative ones (in need of improvement), and a special training of the academic staff for change. These changes involve the development of an integrated model of teacher ev aluation that reflects the teacher's competence (kno wledge, skills, attitudes) in the main components of its work (teaching, research, interpersonal relations, employment training, etc.).
