Legislative Bases for Quality Assurance in Romanian Higher Education

Any systematic monitoring and evaluation process, meant to ensure that standards of quality are being met in higher education, has to be founded on legal bases. In other words, the quality assurance program for all Romanian universities is a legislative matter. The purpose of our study is to present the Romanian legislative bases for quality assurance in higher education, to analyze the fundamental fields in higher education quality assurance, to describe the quality demands of the activities of an higher education and to draw some conclusions and to make some recommendations about reforming the quality assurance process in Romanian universities.