Students mobilities from “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad and Oradea University. Intra-European higly-skilled migration. A comparative case study

ABSTRACT

From the perspective of  high education system, the year of 2011 meant for Romania, a recast, a resetting of all system. The mechanisms staged by the Bucharest government, in this case Minister of Education, were on one hand, the new Educational Law, and on the other side, in the same time, the ranking of universities and subordinate colleges.

The new Education Law, focuses on student-centered learning, aims to acquire knowledge, establishes flexibility and modernization of curricula and in the same is looking to approach the educational system to the labor market, national and international, in high-skilled levels and in common levels of labor.

The ranking of universities in three classes (categories), has determined a resetting of all educational system, including the young people seeking  higher education option. The ranking of universities by the quality of study programs (A, B, C, D, etc.) opened new perspectives in the field of development and competitiveness. This major change in the high educational field creates the perfect frame for student mobility and also opens the road of migration for the most qualified youth looking for safer, better paid, more advantageous labor market on medium and long term.

This paper work research proposal is to study student mobility from both active university centers, which hold rating faculties, authorized and accredited. The hypothesis or the beginning point is given by the question: “Do all this transformations influence or not abroad student mobility”? In other words, can we see changes in the numbers of student applications form for specified Intra-European highly skilled programs or there are no changes toward last year? This study considers the number of allowed applications for each university and involves every appliance form, not only the once that effectively succeed to obtain an international mobility.