The Policy of Reducing Study Places in Communist Romania Case Study of the Academic Year 1982-1983

• Authors: Matei Gheboianu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the Romanian education system, the 1980s were a time of big constraints. The most severe decline in the number of places in the higher education system occurred in the preparation of the academic year 1982/1983. This trend continued during the following years, albeit it was less drastic. In this paper I try to answer the following questions: Which was the overall significance of the cuts? How were the cuts distributed among forms of higher education – daytime courses, evening courses and extramural courses? Which were the reasons behind these cuts? Were the cuts motivated by the employers’ demand of graduates?

Keywords

EN

study places; communism; higher education; planning; Nicolae Ceaușescu

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 97-110

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Matei Gheboianu

• University of Bucharest, Faculty of History

References

• Arhiva Institutului Național de Statistică (1982) Învățământul superior la începutul anului universitar 1982-1983.
• Arhiva Ministerului Educației Naționale (AMEN), Permanent, file no. 19/1964, 330/1972, 223/1980.
• Arhiva Ministerului Educației Naționale (AMEN), Permanent, file no. 330/1972 (HCM No. 698/June 16, 1972, Plan de scolarizare 1972/1973).
• Arhivele Nationale Istorice Centrale (ANIC), CC al PCR – secția Cancelarie, file no.31/1982 – Transcript of the meeting of the Executive Political Committee of PCR’s Central Committee dated May 31, 1982.
• Siani-Davies, Peter, Revoluţia Română din decembrie 1989, Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2006.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2014-0014