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Short History
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Short History
The Faculty of Management is one of the essential components of the Romanian economic higher education, and its foundation was laid as early as 1913, when the Law setting up The Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies in Bucharest (the Bucharest University of Economics) was issued.
A first proof in this respect lies in the very way the institution was named: "The Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies", which implies that the industrial sector, with everything it involves, was to represent a very important aspect in the newly-born academic institution, with a view to training well-prepared economists.
A second proof, essential in this respect, is given by the Law issued in April 1913, in the chapter regarding the content and the development of the educational process. Thus, among the subject matters which were to be taught in the Academy as "lectures" and "conferences" were:
-the study of transport, by rail and by water, and tariffs
-the industry and jobs in Romania and their legislation
-Industrial technology
-Applied industrial physics and chemistry
-the practical study of commercial and industrial enterprises
During inter-war and post-war periods, measures to improve the AHCIS activity were taken, in terms of both structural organisation and quality of educational process increase. However, in all these instances, there were certain components of the educational process organisation and certain subject matters that anticipated and prepared the foundation and development of the Faculty that we are referring to within BUE.
Immediately after the First World War ceased, important changes in the "Regulations for AHCIS organisation and administration" were made through a Royal Decree. According to article 70 of the modified regulations, the educational process within the AHCIS was divided into three sections with distinct names and content. The second one was the "Industrial section", which in 1927 changed its name into "Section II, Industrial Administration".
Until the 1936/1937 academic year, the university studies in the AHCIS lasted three years (a preparation year was introduced in 1929); that is why the subject matters for the first year were taken by all students, and those for the second and the third years were divided into two categories: "common courses" and "specialized courses", according to each section. For instance, for the second year there were 11 common subject matters and 3 specialized courses for the second section: Applied Industrial Physics, The Accountancy of Industrial Enterprises and The Trade of Grains and Their Derivatives. For the third year, there were 7 common courses and, for the second section, four special courses: Oil industry, trade and legislation; Industrial Technology; The Accountancy of Industrial Enterprises; Wood industry and trade.
In the line of restructuring and improving the educational process in AHCIS in the inter-war period, special attention must be paid to the change of the Institution's Regulation in 1938, which confirms the 4-year length of studies; the courses were still divided into 2 categories, named "general courses" for years I and II and "specialized courses" for years III and IV; there were three sections: I - Economics, Finance, Social Sciences; II - Administrative, Consular Section; III - Commercial, Industrial section. The last two sections will be comprised in the profile of the Faculty of Management later on.
1974 was the year when profound changes in the organisational structure of the AHCIS started to take place. Thus, through Law 288/1974, AHCIS and the Academy of Cooperatist Studies merged and formed the Academy of Commercial and Cooperatist Sciences, with two large faculties:
The Faculty of Commercial Sciences
The Faculty of Cooperatist Sciences
This structure and its name did not last too long since, through the Law regarding the restructuring of the educational system in 1948, the Academy was named "The Institute of Economic Studies and Planning"(IESP); the name was used, with slight changes, until 1967, when the current name, the Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti (literally, "Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies") was adopted.
Between 1948 and 1967, there were big fluctuations within IESP, regarding the number of faculties and their names or the content of the educational process, which was supposed to be focused on the socialist centrally-planned economy. Our Faculty was called, at that time, " The Faculty of Economic Planning and Administration ", with the following departments: Industrial Economy, Agricultural Economy, Commercial and Cooperatist Economy. Starting with the 1951-1952 academic year, the first two departments are kept, and two other departments are set up: Labour Economy and The Economy of Technical and Material Supply.
In the 1958/1959 academic year, the number of faculties was drastically reduced and the content of the subject matters of the current Faculty of Management were spread around; most of them were to be found within the Faculty of General Economics, which had two sections: Political Economy, and Planning and Statistics. In the '60s, important reorganisation activities regarding the economic higher education were developed (activities that also took place in the '70s and '80s). The first results appeared in the academic year 1967/1968 when the name The Academy of Economic Studies was adopted for BUE. There were six faculties, and one of them was called the Faculty of Production Economy and had two sections: The Economy of Industry and The Economy of Agriculture.
All the subsequent changes within BUE, in terms of its structural organisation, did not modify much the essence of its structure established in 1967/1968. One exception is our Faculty, which, starting with the academic year 1971/1972 took the name of the Faculty of Industrial Economics , due to the fact that the agricultural section was removed.
A significant moment is related to the academic year 1974/1975 when its name was changed into " The Faculty of Industrial, Construction and Transport Economics ", which better reflects the training programs and the specialisation directions of the economic students that are trained here. 1986 was the year when the Faculty merged with the Faculty of Accounting and Agricultural Economy, resulting in " The Faculty of Industrial and Agricultural Economics ", with two sections. This "marriage" did not last long, until February 1990, when those two sections turned into separate faculties.
The opportunities created by December 1989 triggered radical structural and content-related changes within the educational process in the BUE, with a view to focusing on the specificity of market economy. Given this novelty, the faculty presented here has adopted since 1990 the name of The Faculty of Management , with the following specialisations: Management in Industry; Management in Constructions, Transport and Telecommunications; General Economy.
The 1993/1994 academic year represents a new stage in the organisation of the educational process within BUE: the modular structure, also adopted by the Faculty of Management. According to this system, the students benefit from common courses in the first two years, and from profile-related specialisations in the next two years. It is also worth mentioning the fact that in 1995/1996 the Public Administration Department was founded, which is much appreciated by the young people who want to continue their training in this field.
Eager to apply the reforming initiatives meant to place the Romanian higher education in line with the European exigencies, the Faculty of Management has adopted, since 1998/1999, the 24 hour/week study program adopted by the BUE, based on transferable credits, with two-three directions for advanced study of the basic specialisation.
The students of our Faculty are taught by valuable staff, who are organised in four departments that belong to the Faculty of Management. It is also true that our students benefit from the expertise of some other academic staff that belong to various other departments in BUE. The staff's activity consists of: lectures, applications, seminars, management games, as well as organising students' scientific meetings, supervising graduation papers, supervising practical activities in production etc.
The Faculty of Management develops a rich activity at international level: it runs programs for economic higher education modernisation and collaborates with other higher education institutions abroad. Thus the Faculty manages to ensure students' and teachers' mobilities, which lead to experience exchanges and contribute to taking the educational process to the level of the international standards (The Tempus Common European Project has facilitated, in the last three years, preparation stages at universities in UK, France, Spain and Portugal for scores of students).
