Abstract
Over the years scholars, politicians, economists and others have recognized that no country could achieve economic growth and development without an efficient educational system. Functional education plays a central role in preparing individuals to become the labour force and in the same time to respect the environment in order to use efficiently the resources. It is said that from immemorial times, education was the one who offered solutions to various problems, but also generated a lot of controversies in the evolution of the world. Thus, in the case of a crisis, the education must be studied from at least two points of view. When speaking about crisis, first we must pose a question whether education is only a victim of the crisis or it may be a cause or a part of the solution needed to exit from the crisis. Starting from such a question, this paper aims to emphasize the existing connection between economic crisis and the contemporary education. The paper starts by using a retrospective and contrastive analysis, based on methodological pillars such as: filiations of ideas, genesis, and statistics. Using quantitative and also qualitative methods, the paper focuses on the way of functioning of the Romanian educational system and offers suggestions how to improve it.
Highlights
Many economists speak about causes and effects of the economic crisis, asking themselves whether they should emphasize the education as a cause or as a solution of it
Ing after the crisis; in the early 2011, about two and a half years after the global financial crisis broke, economic output in the EU10 returned to the pre-crisis level (World Bank 2011, p. 2)
In our country the analysis of the educational system and of its implications on the economy shows that the travelled road was long and difficult and, it still requires overcoming some significant obstacles
Summary
Many economists speak about causes and effects of the economic crisis, asking themselves whether they should emphasize the education as a cause or as a solution of it. Following the Europe 2020 strategy, EU member states are preparing their national reform programs with specific-country targets These strategies will build on lessons from government policies during the crisis. The current crisis cannot altogether mask the underlying seismic shift towards a more globalised higher education and research community, an arena in which models of cooperation and collegiality versus competition and corporatism, vie for hegemony (Bennett 2010, p.1). In such a context, we must see the importance of the higher education system, which has to be developed, not destroyed. In such a global economic environment, it is more important than ever for countries to put into place the fundamentals underpinning economic growth and development
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