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Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University
(
Romanian
:
Universitatea Cre?tin? "Dimitrie Cantemir"
) is a
private university
in
Bucharest
. The university was founded in 1990 by Momcilo Luburici and
Corina-Adriana Dumitrescu
as the Dimitrie Cantemir Independent University, which has since developed 17 faculties in
Bucharest
,
Bra?ov
,
Cluj-Napoca
,
Constan?a
and
Timi?oara
.
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Faculties
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- Bucharest
[2]
- Law and Administration (
Stiinte Juridice si Administrative
)
- Touristic and Commercial Management (
Management Turistic si Comercial
)
- International Business and Economics (
Relatii Economice Internationale
)
- Finance, Banking and Accountancy (
Finante, Banci si Contabilitate
)
- Marketing
- Education Science (
Stiinte ale Educatiei
)
- Foreign Languages and Literatures (
Limbi si Literaturi Straine
)
- History (
Istorie
)
- Political Science (
Stiinte Politice
)
Accreditation issues
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The Romanian newspaper
Gandul
reported that Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University started 34 Master's degree curricula for which it had no legal right of teaching.
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According to the university's rector,
Corina Dumitrescu
, the relevant law has a loophole, since it uses a present continuous tense, which is uncharacteristic for the Romanian language.
[3]
[4]
She says that institutional evaluation (accreditation as required by law) may also happen after the curricula have been taught. The actual wording in Romanian is
universitate acreditat? supus? periodic evalu?rii institu?ionale
("accredited university subject to periodical institutional evaluation"), and Dumitrescu argues that
care se supun
("which are subject to") means that an accredited institution can be evaluated "today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow" (and presumably, any time), not that its curricula would need to have been evaluated (i.e. accredited) in the past.
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[4]
For the study year 2010?2011, 16 Master's curricula from nine of its faculties are accredited in Order no. 4630/2010 of the Department of Education.
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Proper qualification
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After proper educational assessment, the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS) issued a Degree of High Trust (
Romanian
:
Grad de incredere ridicat?
to the university, the highest qualification awarded in Romania to a higher education institution.
[7]
In 2011, the university was inspected by The
European University Association
as an "education-centered university",
[8]
meaning that it focuses more on teaching than on research. In Romania, this "education-centered university" category is the third and lowest grade that Romanian universities can get.
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Following this, "education-centered universities" in Romania were no longer allowed to offer
postgraduate degree
programmes.
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References
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- ^
"UCDC History"
.
ucdc.ro
. Retrieved
29 October
2016
.
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"
"Dimitrie Cantemir" Christian University"
. Retrieved
29 October
2016
.
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a
b
c
"Universitatea Crestina "Dimitrie Cantemir" adopta modelul "Spiru Haret" "
Gandul, July 20, 2009. (in Romanian)
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a
b
c
Florea, Raul (July 19, 2009).
"Cantemir dup? Spiru: masterate infiin?ate doar in baza legilor gramaticale"
.
Gandul
(in Romanian).
- ^
?om?nescu, Cristina (July 19, 2011).
"Topul celor mai mari scandaluri din universit??i"
.
Money.ro
. Archived from
the original
on March 24, 2012
. Retrieved
September 12,
2011
.
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Ordinul MECTS nr. 4630/2010
Archived
2011-07-24 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
"LISTA PROGRAMELOR DE STUDII UNIVERSITARE Propuse spre analiz? ?i validare in ?edin?a Consiliului ARACIS"
(PDF)
. The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
. Retrieved
22 July
2010
.
- ^
a
b
c
Florea, Raul (6 September 2011).
"Clasificarea universit??ilor. Vezi aici ce universit??i vor fi axate pe licen??, masterat ?i doctorat"
.
Gandul
(in Romanian).
External links
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