BULETIN ğTIIN IFIC - Universitatea George Bacovia

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George NEAMU
the social work graduates into the social assistance and protection network. And
these two levels interwoven: the universities cannot possibly train students who are
not to be accepted into the professional practice because of the incongruence
between the university curricula and the job description / card.
This study aims to correlate two realities: on one side, after analysing university
curricula contents from fourth tradition university centres, to elaborate a disciplines’
benchmark “list” to serve in the national homogenisation of the educational plans for
the bachelor level; and on the other side, through the analyse and description of
social services from fourth Moldavian counties and of the other social work
organisations, to create a hierarchy of priorities and directions for the master’s
specialisations organised by the universities.
These objectives can be reached with the help of sociological methodology,
where the main method would be the investigation based on questioners and
interviews along with documentation. The importance of this approach lays in the fact
that in the end of the project an approximately 80 pages report would be delivered
and handed to the resort department of the Education and Research Ministry and as
well be sent to each Romanian university that is engaged in delivering social work
bachelor and master’s studies. The results would be then published as a volume
including other specialised articles and researches, especially of the participants at
the project’s closure symposium.
A large number of universities have an education offer in social work. Beside the
traditional university centres well known for their human science schools, on the
Romanian map of university state or private education have shown up universities
that find themselves in an advanced phase of specific logistics building (specialised
personnel, adequate material base, advanced scientific research), some of them
developing this kind of projects soon after the 1990. The present university network
that ensures professional education in social work within the state university system –
offering a certain number of places without fee and doubled by the tax places – is
composed of the fallowing institutions: “The First of December 1918” University of
Alba Iulia, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, University of North from Baia Mare,
“Transilvania” University of Brasov, The University of Bucharest, “Babes Bolyai”
University of Cluj Napoca, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, University of Craiova,
“Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, University of Oradea, University of Petrosani,
University of Pitesti, “Eftimie Murgu” University of Resita, “Lucian Blaga” University of
Sibiu, “Valahia” University of Targoviste, University of West from Timisoara. To these
it can be added a quite large number of private institutions that either got the
authorisation or even the accreditation on social work sections. We do not intend to
enumerate them, but they are usually doubling the number of the state university
institutions.
As we can see, there is a vast institutional field, yet neither homogeneous nor
uniform – and this regards both the territorial distribution and the real educational
availability, like building the curricula or the contents circulated within the professional
formation etc. The mentioned universities still school a promotion of long term studies
(the last of this kind ending in the university year 2007-2008) of 240 transferable
credits, while the university colleges organise short term studies of 180 transferable
credits.
With the beginning of the university year 2005-2006, in the spirit of the Bologna
Declaration and accordingly to the Government Decisions 896/2004 and 88/2005, the