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, Cosmina Rughiniș, Daniel David

Mathematical disciplines in the syllabi of academic specialisations supporting higher education quality (p. 32 – 43)
Dumitru Gașpar

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 Fartușnic

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

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