Development of School Governance to Support Engineering Education

AbstractIt is known that technical universities are accessed by high-school graduates, whose formative knowledge must include elements to support the education, and especially the engineering culture. This is all the more since during the past decade the principles of modern education promoted by the Bologna school have become mandatory; one of its essential features is the acceleration of the informational accumulation processes, specific to the engineering education; accordingly, school governance should be readapted to the new requirements of the engineering education. This paper presents a study on the identification of possible ways to support higher education in engineering by the high-school education in Romania. The qualitative analysis led to the prioritization of results based on the consideration of the common areas of interest of high-school and university education. The results of investigations carried out, lead us to claim that school governance can support higher education, particularly in engineering, with well-trained candidates, and furthermore that school governance is perhaps the most important factor in increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, quality and relevance of school education in Romania