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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN ROMANIA.

Authors:  I. IANOŞ, C. BRAGHINA, D. PEPTENATU, DANIELA ZAMFIR, LORETA CEPOIU, R. PINTILII.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

Geographical Analysis of the Higher Education Infrastructure in Romania. Any inhabitant of Romania, according to the Constitution, must get equal access to any form of higher education, without very high cost discrepancies. It’s about not only an equilibrated distribution of universities, but also their similar distribution according to the science fundamental fields. The analysis made on territorial distribution evidences a first distortion factor: the particular concentration of the university infrastructure in 9 centers, representing more than 3/4 of the total number of students and of the teaching staff. At the same time, a more detailed study leads to the idea of individualizing two important inequities in the medical and, respectively, agricultural field. The analysis of the higher education infrastructure at the level of the university centers has focused on the number of students per a building, the ratio between the general surface area and the useful area per student, the oldness of the university space and the structure of the university spaces (education, auxiliary, technical and administration, and spaces with other destinations). A deeper view on the education infrastructure of the university level is made by using the number of students per seminar room or laboratory, the number of students per computer and number of INTERNET-connected computers. The last part of the paper is dedicated to the social infrastructure analysis. The conclusion is that despite all efforts made by universities, the level of the social infrastructure is less adequate: accommodation, reading rooms in hostels, students’ canteens. The genuine problems at the level of the social infrastructure and cannot be solved by universities themselves, with their resources only, but by an adequate government policy in this direction. The attraction power of a university center is directly proportional to its size and implies a similar social infrastructure basis. According to the accommodation places, the national hier

 
         
     
         
         
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