Aspects of the Evolution of the Existing Pre-university Education at Regional Level in 1996-2014

Education has not received the necessary attention in the past 20 years, neither from a humanresources perspective, nor from an infrastructure standpoint. Many reforms were predominantlyconcerned with the material aspects, as opposed to to the educational effectiveness. This led to areduction in the number of educational establishments with large implications especially forprimary education. Based on these considerations, the paper presents aspects of developments inthe infrastructure of the pre-university education system in eight development regions of Romania. In particular, the paper addresses developments in the number of establishments structured in preprimary,primary, secondary, upper secondary and vocational education. The analysis conductedshows a dramatic reduction in the level of vocational education as well as in the number of preprimaryestablishments, but also a certain degree of stability and even an increase in the number ofupper secondary units