Modul de formare-Managementul resurselor financiare - uefiscdi

In Romania the higher education funding is made on the principle "the resources follow the
students”. The concept of "equivalent student" is used to create a certain homogeneity between
the various areas and durations of the higher education.
The quality indicators are a component with a stimulating and corrective role. It allows that state
budget allocations meet the basic needs of the universities to prepare students (staff costs and
material costs) to be correlated on how these needs are met from funds allocated by the state and
other income.
In the expenses structure those with wages (teaching and non-teaching staff) have a significant
proportion, statistically, covering about 80% of the total allocations received by the core
funding of universities. The expenses on staff wages in the higher education system varies
depending on the teaching positions structure and their occupancy rate. The teaching staff wages
are directly affected by the number of teaching hours per student, and by the number of
equivalent students corresponding to a teaching position.
The additional funding of the higher education institutions is carried out based on an
additional contract concluded with the Ministry of Education, Research,Youth and Sports, for
each additional funding granted.The additional funding is made both from the state budget and
from external sources, ie loans and foreign aids.
1.5. Some strategic proposals on the financing of the universities in Romania at this stage
The international experience and the practice at the national level recommends us a new focus
in terms of the higher education financing strategy in Romania.
First, financing an university has to take into account its specific activity:
only the educational activities;
education and research activities;
only research activities.
This calls for the universities to be licensed for one of these activities. Currently there is a
mixture between teaching and research activity that often creates confusion.
Second, it may be better that the universities to define their teaching activities on cycles:
only cycle I, licensing;
only cycle II and III, i.e. masters and PhD School;
all three cycles.
In this context, as result of the institutional evaluations, the universities should be classified on
the basis of their competences regarding teaching and research activities.
Third, there are at least three main funding sources:
from the state budget;
from the school fees;
from the bank loans for studies.
1. As regarding the budgetary financing, it should be made a major reconsideration of this
system: the state should allocate at national level, on areas (engineering, economics, medicine,
etc.) a number of places for the public funded students correlated with the needs of the public
sector. As such, the state should finance the future specialists of the institutions and public
organizations. Procedural, as result of the orders received from the public institutions, the state
finances annually, through an organized national competition, a number of positions. The
winners of funding vouchers must be free to choose, by registering and signing a contract for
studies, the university where he/she wishes to study. The funding has to cover the complete
cycle of study, in terms of the accountability of the student on the quality of his/her training. For
example, if he does not get a certain score or does not graduate he have to return the the
ammount of funds used. On the another hand, the state must assure him the conditions to obtain
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