Aspects of teachers' counselling in professional training programs

The theme focuses on quality assurance and on the efficiency of the continuing training programmes in University of Resita. Our experience and pressures have determined to underline: the way that the teachers of the undergraduate level perceive the continuing training programmes, the identification of professional development needs and the perception of the career development from the school's management point of view. Our research is based on this three coordinates and it analyses on two perspectives: from the trainer's perspective and from the institution's one. Our main research method is qualitative (over 900 interviews and associative verbal tests). The results are presented in this paper along with our observations and recommendations. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.