ROMANIA IN THE CONTEXT OF RECENT EVOLUTIONS IN INTERNATIONALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Internationalization and Globalization are two of the major challenges facing higher education in the last decades. The issue is equally complex and controversial and has been the Pelts of reflection and debates not Only at the academic community level but also at the political one and last but not least at the civil society level. Following the economic model, internationalization and globalization in higher education are uneven processes with different effects on the actors involved: they may bring benefits or losses, may represent opportunities or risks, may create global champions or may grow the number of losers. The consequence is that governments and university leaders are equally preoccupied to elaborate strategies in order to mostly benefit from international mobility of students and academic staff from cross border cooperation at regional or global level and last but not least from increased competition in the higher education market. This paper is structured in two parts. In the first, the authors are trying to identify the major recent evolutions in the internationalization and globalization in the higher education worldwide and in the second Romania is presented in this context. The main aim of the authors is to give a better understanding of the opportunities and risks derived from the internationalization of the higher education in Romania.