THE PRESENCE AND QUALITY OF ACADEMIC DEGREE AND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ON THE ROMANIAN UNIVERSITIES WEBSITES – A MUST IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION NOWADAYS
THE PRESENCE AND QUALITY OF ACADEMIC DEGREE AND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ON THE ROMANIAN UNIVERSITIES WEBSITES – A MUST IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION NOWADAYS

Summary/Abstract: The present study intends to emphasize the importance of the elaboration of academic degree and course descriptions in Romanian, their professional translation into English, as well as their publication on the university websites, in the context of internationalization of higher education institutions in Romania, in Europe and worldwide. The study case focuses on twenty-seven Romanian universities holding various ranking positions, according to Webometrics1 (in February 2016). The findings reveal a weak presence of the academic degree and course descriptions (study guides) in both languages, as well as non-professional existing translations from Romanian into English, which allowed a series a hypotheses and recommendations.

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