HYPERION ECONOMIC JOURNAL

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• Laurentiu Mihai MIHAILA, PhD Student, Affiliation: Valahia University, Targoviste, Romania;
• Gabriela Alina PARASCHIVA, PhD Student, Affiliation: Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania;
• Constanta-Valentina MIHAILA, PhD, Lecturer, Affiliation: National University of Physical Education and Sports, Bucharest, Romania.

In recent years a special attention has been paid to private education, various studies and documents of educational policy trying to cover both its funding formula and the way it is organized. All of them, on the one hand, stipulate the fundamental right to education of everyone and the role of the state, as a guarantor, in its preservation; and on the other hand, they highlight the effective contribution of the state as regulator and as a financier. Therefore, in the context in which the state finances, to a greater or lesser extent, private education, a question arises as to the very essence of this subsystem: what does “private education” actually means now? That is why, the present study performs an analysis on private pre-university education at European level, having as theoretical support the UOE 2020 Manual and using education and training EUROSTAT database. Providing an image of existing similarities and differences, the analysis shows that the situational range is much more diverse than the theoretical one established at the level of the UOE 2020 Manual; and that the private education is undergoing a process of transformation, from 2 perspectives - that of overall control and that of financing.

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