Aspects regarding the efficiency of the tertiary education in the context of sustainable development
Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Romania
PROCEEDINGS of
North International Conference of Economics,
Issue 1 / 2016,
pp.255-262
ISSN 2537-317X
ABSTRACT
For the society to become sustainable, the universities must become themselves an eloquent
example regarding the promotion of the sustainable development concept. Since the activity in
the tertiary education is of a socio-cultural nature, measuring the efficiency in this domain is
very a difficult process that supposes the elaboration of a set of performance indicators, in view
of growing the quality of the services offered by the universities, but also their financing. The
chosen theme is a very actual one, since neither now, on a world level, was managed to create
some indicators to measure the exact efficiency of the tertiary education, the process being at
its full expansion. The activity of a tertiary education institution is efficient provided its
graduates are capable to satisfy the ongoing needs of the labour market, this way contributing
not only to the personal well-being, but also to the society's.
Keywords: sustainable development, the efficiency of tertiary education, the financing of the tertiary education, sustainable universities, sustainable communities.
