English homework (essay)
University level education has always been a tough subject when particularizing for Romania case. Due
to the late start it had, the first modern university being founded in 1860, the development of the
methods of teaching, of attracting more people, or balancing the practical issue with the theoretical one
escalated pretty fast, as, in the hurry of catching the global education level, Romanian education
couldn’t form an own style, a representative technique to represent us internationally.
In the read article, this is the issue debated, authors balancing it with the challenges that a successful
educator has to deal with: selecting materials that make meaningful connections and generate
significance in the learner’s life. University life in Romania is seen by the criticizing eyes of the writers as
a period with the meaning of self-awareness, where student, being under the shade of the exhaustively
covering paradigmatic shift, founds himself in the situation to liberate himself from the self-incurred
tutelage.
The academic life, in order to cover an as wide as possible rage of people, has begun to collaborate with
the workforce cumulating entropies, as, in the future, continuing education is desired to be an integral
part of everyday work. Every person has a different way of learning and, basing more on the chosen
work domain, the accumulation of information would have a much greater efficiency, totally, if it will be
done particularized on every student’s needs.
Another highly criticized item is the very poor connection between the professional formation routes
and the skills asked by the jobs nowadays. Not always the most attracting universities, in the first place,
offer a high employability chance and, because of this, the scale of the workforce compared to the
students’ one is much less than its true potential.
Indeed, this enormous difference has been, after different analysis, including the PESTEL test (Political,
Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal factors), spotted especially in the public education
field, the private universities offering much more flexibility when talking about the afterwards chances
of getting hired.
Of course, this big difference comes especially not because of the teaching ways or the quality of the
teachers and educators, but because of the preliminary chances a student has in the first place. As most
of the campuses prefer to stay “off line”, the rage of the materials needed for a proper understanding of
the proposed concepts is not available to the students in the absence of internet and so on. Even so,
gadgets, like iPods, MP3s, Kindles and other electronic devices ease the learning process.
As an international poll has been realized, it is considered that every person should have entrepreneurial
qualities, as every job may require, at some point, dealing or trading and, because of that, the Romanian
universities have introduced in their normal schedule entrepreneurial courses, as an uniform
development of the social side is desired even from the mathematicians, physicists and engineers.
As the most preferred university by nowadays students relieves to be Business and Economics, it is also
shown, as an irony, that most of the students who choose that are from the countryside. As an
extension to this, the international analysts say that Romania has to reach a homogenous education
development level, in order to neutralize not only the social differences, but also the national
distribution of certain specialization.
Even if Romania is quite a cheap country, the taxes are still one of the most problematic issues when
talking about the rate of the university admitted students. Because of the reminiscence of the
communist period that governed Romania for over 45 years, the lyceum oriented curriculum is not
designed to fulfill students’ needs, but to teach them much and unintelligible stuff. For the ones not
happy enough to have the ability to be shaped after the demands, private university might seem the
only option, where exam is not necessary and where students can recover what they couldn’t assimilate.
This kind of universities are also a gate to international workforce, as there is still a gap between us and
the rest.
Now, with the technology evolution, we can realize that a realistic and quite trouble-solver way to
include as many students as possible in post lyceum programs is the online teaching, where, even if the
practical skills are not exercised, students have permanent access to a lecturer that may solve their
dilemmas and may guide them on the right path for extra individual studying.
This may solve one problem, but, on the whole, we could differentiate many problematic factors for the
wellness of a wealthy university national system.
Even demographic, political, historical and environmental factors would hinder the development of high
level education in Romania, but many researchers are trying right when we are reading this to solve it,
dreaming about a utopian country, where everybody is able to reach the desired education level, not
taking account of the financial situation, social status or the level of so said “intelligence” measured by
the baccalaureate exam.
Overall, our dear and beloved country is on the right way of ascendance. This article is exactly spotting
the issues that may affect the higher education and because identifying the problems is the first step in
the way to their solving, authors can count themselves as ones of the few who start, officially, this
cultural and academic revolt. I, personally, hope that, by the time I get at the university and out of it, the
situation will be already changed and that there will not be the need of emigration, as it was in the case
of the 4 million Romanians who already chose the foreign way between 2000 and 2014.
