RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

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perspective, educational policies are defined as “a specification of principles and actions,
related to educational issues, which are followed or which should be followed and which are
designed to bring about desired goals” The author recommends to approach educational policies
from the perspective of a process, of an ongoing interaction of all factors involved in
their development, in order to permanently follow the effects versus results (Trowler, 2003,
pp. 95-96) A high-performing educational system could be defined as that system which contributes
to individuals’ personal development, leads to well-paid workforce and, equally important,
contributes to the well-being of the local community through each individual’s civic
involvement. This way, an educational system’s main contribution is to lead to the development
of a strong economy (Winch & Gingell, 2004, pp. 11-12) The authors highlight the multiple
forms a country’s strong economy can take: an economy which allows the country to
exist and develop through its own resources, in which a variety of goods and services are
produced or an economy which allows the country to become strong politically and militarily.
For this reason the governments’ and local communities’ preoccupation lies in evaluating
how investment in education leads to economic development, through local projects which
stimulate those fields of study which lead to the country’s or region’s development in the
desired direction. Following this line of thought, if there is a wish to develop a branch of
industry which requires highly skilled and trained workforce, then educational policies will
be directed at stimulating those educational programs which will produce qualified workforce.
Thus, the permanent evaluation of educational performance aims at identifying whether
adopted measures led to desired results.
The evaluation of graduates’ performances can be quantified on the one hand through results
obtained during studies and on the other hand through the degree of future involvement in
community development. (Winch & Gingell, 2004, pp. 65-68) The authors name this evaluation
“the culture of responsibility”. This culture of responsibly using funds for education
applies at the level of governments and of local communities as well. To demonstrate that
the resources were efficiently used becomes a responsibility for both the educational system,
and governments/local administration, which need to direct resources towards those programs
of studies that focus on a certain country/regional development direction.
We firstly need to highlight that one of the constant preoccupations of the EU is the development
of policies for ensuring EU competitiveness globally, this being connected to the promotion
and financing of research and innovation projects, especially through provisions in
Horizon 2020 strategy.
Such projects focus on strengthening the scientific and technological basis of European
industry and encourage the participation of research institutions (universities, research centres)
in partnership with enterprises/private companies and non-governmental associations
for developing joint projects. The purpose of supporting such projects through EU policies
is to stimulate EU economic growth through the creation of new workplaces (at http://www.
europarl.europa.eu/atyourservice/ro/displayFtu.html?ftuId=FTU_5.9.6.html). The governments’
preoccupation for the development of educational policies to create new workplaces has deep
roots, and their establishment is related to the development of mass education and development
of the educational system in the modern states. (Green, 2013, pp. 35-81)
In developing educational policies with an impact on the labour market one needs to take
into consideration that under the influence of globalization complex effects impact on the
level of human resources qualification, as a result of technological development (Bell &
Stevenson, 2006, pp. 41-58). This type of development is based on the technological prog-