5. The Pre-university Performance Educational Management on-line program – MEPP
An on-line continuous training program, financed through Phare 2005 program, has been accredited at the
„Muntenia” Training Centre from University of Pitesti a new training program named Pre-university Performance
Educational Management (MEPP), designed for the leaders of educational institutions or for the teachers who aspire
to leading role in the pre-university education. The program had good antecedents, starting two years before, in the
classical training system and was rated, at the end of the Phare project, with the top national qualification, in 2008.
Afterwards the same on-line program has been re-accredited by the National Education Ministry until 2015 (see
www.cfm.upit.ro).
The on-line continuous training program MEPP started initially as a challenge for the coordinator – the
„Muntenia” Training Center, being conceived as a long term continuous training program (272 effective training
hours) and being accredited with 90 transferable credits. The challenge was for the trainers to use the equipments
specific to the on-line education and the internet communication. The trainees’ recruitment has been done and still is
through a web page – www.cfm.upit.ro dedicated to the on-line MEPP program. Subsequently, we observed that
such an education system is viable and it can be efficient because of the interest manifested by the trainees, there is
no geographical restriction, the final trainees’ evaluations.
The MEPP program is designed on three modules: Educational management, Communication and curriculum and
Communication and information techniques. Each module has 30 transferable credits and contains mandatory and
optional subjects.
The training schedule considers the time availability for both the trainer and trainee. There are 12 hours
scheduled each week, in the afternoon, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Initially part of the training hours
were held on Saturdays, but that stopped when the trainees requested it.
Each subject from the MEPP program is finalized with the evaluation activity, with one of the agreed
qualifications: insufficient, sufficient, good, very good or excellent. The qualification given by the trainer considers
the way the trainee participates in the education activities, the quality of its homework or its project, the trainee’s
involvement in the on-line group debates.
The trainers participating in the MEPP program are teachers from Pitesti University and from the Arges County
Education Inspectorate, having an appreciable experience in educational activities with adults. Each trainer has a
course support adapted to the newest pre-university education management requirements, that the trainees can
access as soon as they get the password for participating in the program.
The participation fee is 1500 lei, payable in 5 rates, all through the duration of the training. The trainees may pay
from with their own money or from the funds of the educational unit where they work, if there are funds allocated
for the continuous training at that unit. In Table 1 are presented, for the last four groups of students of the
„Muntenia” Training Centre, the period of the year in which the courses were held for them and the number of
students for each of these.