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ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT WITH HIGH AUTONOMY AND RESPONSABILITIES. University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest Mihai Corocăescu. INTRODUCTION.
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ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT WITH HIGH AUTONOMY AND RESPONSABILITIES University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest Mihai Corocăescu
INTRODUCTION • In an economy where the knowledge starts to be the true capital and the most important motor of development, education system confronting new challenges as regards the performance and responsibility. • The performance and the responsibility can be obtained only if exists a real autonomy of university.
UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT MUST KEEP IN COUNT OF • Existing realities • Challenges which must face them • Adapting step by step of the society changes.
ACADEMIC AUTONOMY Universities must operate by these principles: • Autonomy • Freedom in taking decisions • Responsibility • Transparency
ACADEMIC AUTONOMY • It must be create an accessible legislative and coherent cadre in choosing the right decision at the right time and to be congruent with the personal needs. • To be allocated financial resources.
ACTUAL SITUATION • At this time there is no real autonomy because the Ministry of Education still has a bigger control of universities (the ministry approves any expenses from the budget or private incomes). • University autonomy resumes only of academic autonomy: • establishing the management structure • proceeding of education system • selection and promotion of didactic staff
ACTUAL SITUATION • Financial plan • University autonomy is accomplish, as regard the management, according to the law, of the allocated funds from the national public budget or emanated sources, according to the criteria concerted with the Ministry.
SOLUTIONS IN AUTONOMY DEVELOPMENT To accomplish this desideratum, Romanian universities need of: freedom in taking decisions the raise of funds renouncing at bureaucratic barriers in managing the universities legislation regarding the acquisitions which keep up the system’s realities
THE RESULTS OF UNIVERSITY’S AUTONOMY WOULD BE • University autonomy should lead to: • flexibility in taking decisions • grater responsibility in taking decisions • competitive management who respond of the institution’s needs
BUREAUCRATIC BARRIERS • University management confronting with: • dependence on ministry • unrolling funds by treasury • application of complicate procedures of acquisition
BUREAUCRATIC BARRIERS The procedures of acquisitions, inadequate to the specific activity of the university and specially research activity, are characterized by: The terms of unwinding procedures are not correlative, financial allocation and terms to delivery of contract phases, too It’s not allowance of university specific (technique, architecture, music, etc.)
FINANCING UNIVERSITIES • In recent years, assigned funds increased, but they are still insufficiently comparing to the existing needs • It must taking measures to improve financing, by: • Increasing education budget, till 10% from PIB • Doubling the budget allocated to research activity
FACTORS TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION • The universities are not generators of intangible assets • The results appear in time, not immediately • The society must fund an important amount to obtain good results
PROMOTING A MODERN MANAGEMENT It must pass to a new phase that changes the status of the university from a simple administrator of the allocated funds to a self-governing status, while the ministry only remaining role is to establish the political and development strategies It is a required step which must be done by the university to make it able to develop itself
THE MESURES WHICH MUST BE ADOPTED BY THE UNIVERSITY • The Universities must adopt next measures: • To open themselves to the nonacademic space (public institutions, economic agents, etc.) • To grow the transparency within the university, but mostly outside of it
THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE SOCIETY • University is: • A vector of changing • Directly involved in the economical, social and cultural life of the cities and countries
THE GROWING UNIVERSITY’S ROLE IN SOCIETY • Universities must have an important role • Elaborating development strategies of the society on a long or short period • Involving in establishing morals value of the society
CONCLUSIONS • Disposing of a necessary autonomy, the universities may introduce in their developing strategies objectives who integrate them in the society of the globalization and also in the knowledge economy • Also, the universities could be an integration motor in this society and for the entire community where it has its establishment