PERMANENT TRAINING OF ADULTS WITHIN GLOBALIZATION FRAMEWORK

The globalization process determined significant changes in Romania’s occupational structure: new professions appeared and, one the other hand, the contents of many others underwent changes. Inside different fields of activity some professions became more required, others become absolute and disappeared. In order to decide on an education necessity one has to answer the question “What and who do we organize a certain educational process or system for and why do we organize it in a certain way and not otherwise?”. In order to decide on an education necessity one must also answer the question “What social problems does the educational process or system we devised solve?”. The problem of lifelong in-service training is important for supporting the workforce change, being the main instrument it uses in order to adjust to the new requirements, this enabling its nobility among different fields of activity.