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Results concerning the Reduction of Academic Studies Abandonment as an Outcome of Activities Carried Out in the Laboratory for Entrepreneurial Education and Training

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DOI: 10.25236/ssah.2018.207

Author(s)

Ioan Constantin Rada, Liliana Doina Măgdoiu, Anca Păcală, Ioana Carmen Rada

Corresponding Author

Ioan Constantin Rada

Abstract

Following the historical events in 1989, in Romania, as well as in other countries, poverty and social exclusion have extended. These phenomena have either influenced directly or generated risk factors such as a) institutional factors or b) personal factors that have a great influence on the process of academic studies abandonment in the case of freshmen at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of Oradea University. However, students with high risk for abandonment can be determined to give up such an intention due to some activities aimed at their entrepreneurial formation and education whereby they are enabled to acquire the necessary skills for a future career. Thus, the existence of a Laboratory for Entrepreneurial Education and Training might provide opportunities that would later contribute to the reduction of the abandonment phenomenon in the case of the vulnerable risk group formed by freshmen at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Oradea. Research in this respect has already been carried out, for instance: Romania Secondary Education Project - ROSE, which is fully funded by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, based on the Law no. 234/2015 for the ratification of the Loan Agreement (the Secondary Education Project) between Romania and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, signed in Washington on April 17, 2015; these projects are also in line with the strategic objectives of the University of Oradea and with the objectives of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The results of reducing the drop out of university studies are obtained through a series of activities carried out in the Laboratory for Entrepreneurial Education and Training.

Keywords

Results concerning abandonment, academic studies abandonment, entrepreneurial education and training, vulnerable group, risk of abandonment.