MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF MEASURING THE QUALITY OF SERVICES OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The evaluation of educational services� quality through clearly defined criteria and methodologies is a basic requirement of the Bologna Process. The authors are proposing to debate in this study a mathematical model which could be used by the higher education managers in their approaches for determining the quality of the educational services offered, and especially for establishing the place of the higher education institution managed by them in the universitary hierarchy. The study uses a set of indexes proposed by various authors, adapted to the classification structure of the intellectual capital unanimously accepted world wide, namely the external and internal structure and the employees� competence. As calculation method the ROMPEDET method was used. For verifying the model�s usability, this was applied in the case of the universities from Constanta, and the results thus obtained are included in the study.quality of educational services; ROMPEDET method; intangible assets indicators

Factors Influencing the Employability of the Graduates in a Knowledge-Driven Economy

This study aims to highlight the factors which determine the employability of higher education graduates in the knowledge-based economy. We analyzing the employability issues from the perspective of higher education institutions, which are increasingly seen as the principal provider of the knowledge workers, as well as the main culprit for the eventually unemployment of their graduates. In our paper we do a review of the employability literature in order to reveal the whole range of factors which make some graduates more employable than others.Our goal is to sustain by evidences that providing qualified workforce is as important as creating conditions to manifest it in order to create a competitive economy, and this assume the implication of universities, individuals, employers, as well as the national level management for educationhigher education, knowledgebased economy, employability

Aspects Regarding the Financing of Higher Education Institutions

In spite of its universally recognized importance, the literature reveals that higher education in most countries (and Romania is not an exception) is suffering from increasing austerity traced to some combination of rising costs and stating and even diminishing revenues. So it is obviously that we need some changes in the financing systems of higher education, systems that not to affect the quality of the educational services, moreover to be a support for them. This paper presents an analytical view of the other countries’ experience in the matter of financing higher education institutions from the cost sharing perspective, in order to offer solutions for Romanian higher education managers. Our work offers a new perspective and a point of discussions over the changes which must to be made in financing of public higher education system. The paper also reveals the advantages and limits of some of the methods used worldwide and, most of all, affirms the necessity of the implication of all stake-holders in financing higher education.higher education, public funding, fees