Facultatea Psihologie, Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, Sociologie și Asistență Socială

It is already a certainty that we cannot speak about economic, social, and cultural development, nor about human development, in general, in the absence of a quality education: education is no longer considered as an “unproductive sector”, but as an investment in human and social capital and, moreover, as a profitable investment: it is known that a dollar invested in early education can bring a profit of seven dollars, at general social and community level. As a result, the development of education has become a priority target of "advocacy" and promotion at the level of development policies supported by the most important international organizations (UN and UNESCO, OECD and World Bank, European Union, etc.).

Quality education is one of the global goals of sustainable development (Horizon 2030), adopted at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (September 2015): “ensuring an inclusive, equitable and quality education, as well as promoting lifelong learning opportunities for everybody”. The importance of this initiative is paramount, as it represents the consensus of the 193 Member States. This initiative pursues 17 general objectives (Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs), one of which, number 4, refers to "Quality Education".

In this sense, education, as a determining factor of the society development is associated with the current tendencies characteristic of the system’s development, and also with many prospective openings

• valorization of the humanistic paradigm of education, which is oriented towards the maximum development of own Self, personality, and own experience;
• establishment of a knowledge society;
• setting up of new socio-humanistic relations based on harmony with nature, cooperation and negotiation, equal opportunities, valorization of all resources;
• integration of higher education, research and labor market;
• lifelong learning, etc.

The diversity of socio-economic transformations aims at and involves the resizing and updating of the higher education system.