APPROACHING ”QUALITY OF EDUCATION” IN ROMANIAN AND FINNISH EDUCATION SYSTEMS

Abstract

The concept of "quality" is fundamental in the education system because the improvement of the training process and the identity of the school, allow the verification of results and provide a guideline for research and continuous improvement. Evaluation and quality have become major policy issues in education around the world, simultaneously act as strong governance mechanisms at the national and transnational levels. This paper, through the systemic analysis of quality assessment proposes the presentation of two different ways of approaching it, in the education systems of Romania and Finland, each of them personalizing the values and options of educational policy, in a common European intercultural space.