ROMANIAN INTERNATIONALIZATION IN HIGHER ECUATION – NECESSITY OR OBLIGATION

Virgil Popovici

ROMANIAN INTERNATIONALIZATION IN HIGHER ECUATION – NECESSITY OR OBLIGATION

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Virgil Popovici¹

¹ Associate Professor PhD, “Constantin Brancusi “ University of Targu-Jiu, Romania

Corresponding author: [email protected]

Accepted 27 March 2026

Available Online 15 March 2015

Abstract

HISTORICAL REALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHOWS THAT UNIVERSITIES TEND, OBJECTIVELY, TO OVERCOME NATIONAL LIMITS, EXTENDING IN THE SAME TIME THIS SPECIFIC ACTIVITY IN THE GLOBAL MARKET OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IS, IN FACT, A PROCESS WHICH AIMS TO INCREASE THE QUALITY OF STUDENT’S TRAINING, INTERNATIONALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY CURRICULA AND, NOT LEAST, STRENGTHENING THE PRESTIGE AND INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION OF EACH HIGHER ED UCATION INSTITUTIONS. THIS INTERNATIONALIZATION CAN NOT BE DONE WITHOUT T HE EXCELLENT COLLABORATION AND COOPERATION BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS BOTH NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. THE NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL PROCESS, IS CLOSELY RELATED TOIS SIZE.

Keywords

HIGHER EDUCCATION UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY

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