Quality Assurance of Doctoral Studies in Romania – A PhD Candidates’ Perspective

Quality assurance and doctoral education have been considered priorities of the Bologna Process since the 2003 ministerial meeting in Berlin, but they have been developing on two different tracks.Doctoral education is fundamentally different from first and second cycle. Based on the ARDE Project of the European University Association, the purposes of this paper are to analyze the Romanian context and provisions regarding the quality assurance of doctoral studies for the past years and, to offer a doctoral candidates’ perspective on what should be the indicators that the quality assurance of doctoral studies should take into account.