Abstract

The actual number – Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2013 – hosts the theme of “Educational Policies in the Knowledge Based Society”. The current issue of the journal falls in science education and educational policies as part of the social sciences field, including both theoretical articles and empirical research results. In the context of the knowledge based society we refer to the two major dimensions of educational policy: macro size, regarding the impact of systemic changes induced transformation of the legal framework of the system of financing education and research, of national programs related to education, research, youth, etc. on the one hand, and to micro size on the politics of sectoral actors represented by Universities, NGOs and other institutions providing education.