Mergers and Classifications in Romania: Opportunities and Obstacles

Andreescu, Liviu; Gheorghiu, Radu; Irimia, Alina; Curaj, Adrian

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“…Finland's Ministry of Education and Culture (Opetus-ja kulttuuriministeriö) set the agendas and appointed the planning groups for each merger (Nokkala and Välimaa, 2017). In Romania, the responsible Ministry approved a pre-contract establishing conditions, the parties' rights and obligations, and a timeline for completion of a merger, and also had to approve the final merger contract, based on the need for legislative approval (Andreescu et al, 2015). Finally, in the late 1980s, the Australian Government also adopted guidelines for institutional mergers (specifying that merged institutions should form one unified governing body, chief executive, educational profile, funding allocation, and set of academic awards), and its Task Force on Amalgamations evaluated the plans of institutions, and state and territorial governments (Harman, 2000, p. 363).…”

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“…In fact, more intensive CAM are often out of the question unless institutions' legal statuses are first aligned. Differences between public and private universities have been an obstacle to mergers in Romania, as one example (Andreescu et al, 2015). To facilitate CAM across different types of institutions, for example, the Governments of Norway in the 1990s, Alberta (Canada) in 2004 and Iceland in 2011 adopted common prevailing legislative acts (Iceland -Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, 2010; Usher et al, 2016).…”

Section: Defining the Legal Status Of Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In some cases, as in Romania, size is the key deciding factor in determining what QA rules apply to a given institution. Where applicable, governments may also provide greater support to CAM involving institutions with stronger QA standing (Andreescu et al, 2015). Such systems are discussed in more depth in the later subsection on licensing of institutions to provide certain types of degrees.…”

Section: General Quality Assurance Structuresmentioning

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“…For a population of under 20 million people, Romania, has roughly 100 universities, half of which are public (Andreescu et al, 2015;Munteanu and Călin Peter, 2015). Its many national research and development institutes operate mostly in isolation from universities (which conduct a relatively small share of research and development by European standards), creating an atomised research structure that the World Bank has recommended consolidating.…”

Section: Romania: Encouraging University Mergersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Collaboration, alliance, and merger among higher education institutions

Williams

2017

OECD Education Working Papers

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This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. 2 │ EDU/WKP(2017)9 COLLABORATION, ALLIANCE, AND MERGER AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS Unclassified OECD EDUCATION WORKING PAPERS SERIES OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein are those of the author(s). Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works. Comments on Working Papers are welcome, and may be sent to the Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD,

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“…This has been alluded to by Andreescu et al (2015), Miroiu et al (2015) and Andreescu et al (2012) and is primarily a consequence of the fact that the classification was based on the composite scores of university performance which were sorted in descending order and clustered in accordance with predefined thresholds. Moreover, the classification relied on the research scores obtained by the constituent study programs of the universities and, therefore, on the partial results of the ranking process of these programs.…”

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Research-driven classification and ranking in higher education: an empirical appraisal of a Romanian policy experience

2016

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In this paper we investigate the problem of university classification and its relation to ranking practices in the policy context of an official evaluation of Romanian higher education institutions and their study programs. We first discuss the importance of research in the government-endorsed assessment process and analyze the evaluation methodology and the results it produced. Based on official documents and data we show that the Romanian classification of universities was implicitly hierarchical in its conception and therefore also produced hierarchical results due to its close association with the ranking of study programs and its heavy reliance on research outputs. Then, using a distinct dataset on the research performance of 1385 faculty members working in the fields of political science, sociology and marketing we further explore the differences between university categories. We find that our alternative assessment of research productivity-measured with the aid of Hirsch's (Proc Natl Acad Sci 102 (46):16569-16572, 2005) h-index and with Egghe's (Scientometrics 69(1):131-152, 2006) g-index-only provides empirical support for a dichotomous classification of Romanian institutions.

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Mergers and acquisitions in the public research sector. Toward a comprehensive typology

Heller-Schuh

Lepori

Neuländtner

2020

Research Evaluation

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While the literature on firm mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is quite extensive, systematic approaches to analyze mergers in the public research sector are still scarce and focus only on the higher education sector. This article provides, for the first time, systematic empirical evidence on the extent and characteristics of M&A in public-sector research in Europe, by building on a novel dataset comprising demographic events since the year 2000. The goal of this study is to characterize such events in terms of organizations involved, types of events, and regional distribution. We find that M&A constituted a major change process within European public research. Nearly 400 events occurred in Europe between 2000 and 2016 with an increasing trend over time; M&A involved nearly one-fifth of public-sector research organizations and were geographically distributed across two-fifths of all European regions. Demographic events concerned primarily specialist institutions and to a larger extent public research entities and colleges. While the strong involvement of colleges was expected from the literature, for the first time we can show the extensive restructuring which took place in the public research entity sector. On the contrary, well known and prestigious university mergers, largely driven by the quest for international visibility, constituted only 10% of the events. Finally, we identified six broad groups of events characterized in terms of two dimensions, i.e. whether the involved organizations are active on the same or different markets and the extent of overlap between subject offerings.

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Mergers and Classifications in Romania: Opportunities and Obstacles

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Collaboration, alliance, and merger among higher education institutions

Collaboration, alliance, and merger among higher education institutions

Research-driven classification and ranking in higher education: an empirical appraisal of a Romanian policy experience

Mergers and acquisitions in the public research sector. Toward a comprehensive typology

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