September 2009
FOREWORD (p. 3 - 4)
Ioan Curtu, Mihai Floroiu
OPINIONS TO THE INAUGURAL ISSUE (p. 7 - 14)
I. PERSPECTIVES ON QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The Doctorate and the Organization of Doctoral Schools. Diagnosis of Status and Prospects for a Possible Future (p. 17- 31)
Lazăr Vlăsceanu, Cosima Rughiniş, Daniel David
Mathematical disciplines in the syllabi of academic specialisations supporting higher education quality (p. 32 - 43)
Dumitru Gaşpar
Approaches concerning higher education quality assurance from institutional perspective (p. 44 - 54)
Bogdan Florian
Representations of the academic environment on ARACIS’ activity and role (p. 55 - 60)
Mihai Păunescu
II. REVIEWS
UNESCO Forum on Higher Education in the Europe Region: Access, Values, Quality and Competitiveness. Topical Contributions and Outcomes (p. 63 - 65)
Ciprian Fartuşnic
Trends in Quality Assurance: A Selection of Papers from the Third European Quality Assurance Forum (p. 66 - 68)
Liviu Andreescu
III. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
ARACIS Council’s Activity Report during 2006-2009 (p. 71 - 76)
Quality assurance in the Romanian higher education in European context. Development of academic quality management at system and institutional level. POSDRU/2/1.2/S/1 (p. 77- 78)
Internal evaluation of study programmes’ quality (p. 79 - 83)
Mihail Voicu
