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THE BOLOGNA PROCESS: BETWEEN PAST REFORMS AND THE INNOVATIVE FUTURE
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In an ever-changing values system, education is still the core institution of the contemporaneous society. Given its importance, education is under the spotlight as it is currently undergoing substantial challenges. The major reforms started once the Bologna Process became a reality of the European educational setting. 15 years after this reform started, there is a crucial need for evaluating the steps took until now, as well as establishing future development steps that education should undergo. Therefore, the current paper presents a pilot quantitative research based on a survey aimed at evaluating students' and graduates' opinion on the progress made by the educational system in Romania since its compliance to the Bologna Process. Major findings of the research conducted relate to students' perception of educational system improvement in the Bologna era, along with their trust that the process of lifelong learning will increase their chances in the labour market. The results of the current study also draw attention on the need for connecting the contents of the curriculums to the labour market's needs. Further areas that should be considered for reform include dealing with the increasing financing pressure especially on higher education as well as ways of building powerful educational institutions' images as a premise of survival on the crowded educational market. The first objective can be achieved through thinking within the innovation paradigm for identifying and benefiting from opportunities to diminish the financing issue. The second objective can be reached through adopting a marketing view on the educational institutions as means to build sustainable, long-term relationships with all the educational stakeholders.
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