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17 AGORA Int'l J. Jurid. Sci. 155 (2023)
Perspectives of Higher Education in the Context of Contemporary Laws and Security Challenges

handle is hein.journals/agoraijjs2023 and id is 330 raw text is: AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.phaijjs ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677 Vol. 17, No. 2 (2023), pp. 155-162 PERSPECTIVES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY LAWS AND SECURITY CHALLENGES G.F. NICOARA, P. PATRASCU Gabriela-Florina Nicoarai, Petrisor Pitrascu2 1Logistics and Finance Department, Command and Staff Faculty, National Defence University Carol I, Bucharest, Romania, E-mail: nicoara.gabriela@unap.ro 2 Strategic Department, Command and Staff Faculty, National Defence University Carol I, Bucharest, Romania, E-mail: patrascupetrisor@yahoo com Abstract: The new laws of education as well as the challenges of the contemporary security environment require a new approach for the military higher education. In this regard, the paper proposes a general framework which helps us to analyze a large spectrum of factors with implications in military higher education. Moreover, there are expected premises and solutions to adapt military education to the new requirements of the contemporary society. Keywords: higher education, national security, challenges, officers, competences INTRODUCTION Education is one of the fundamental pillars of the evolution of any society. Moreover, it is the formal education that provides future citizens with skills values and knowledge through systematic processes (Suman, 2023). Today's society shapes our perspective of changes and brings attention to the need to rethink the entire educational environment. As Raskha L. (2021) said, learning is a form of change. On the one hand, social evolution from industrial society to a digital society, the qualitative changes brought by Al technologies that are typically based on algorithms, require us to include, in the future, adapted educational scenarios. On the other hand, the new security environment characterized by uncertainty, volatility, the changes among the world's great powers, but also by ongoing military conflicts have influenced the in-demand skills for the future workplace. Furthermore, the characteristics that define generation Z that are entering the workforce, shows us the need to adapt our old methodical practices and learning strategies to the requirements of digital natives. Occupational mobility (Sava et al., 2019:33), from both professional positions at the same level and vertical evolution perspective, becomes a mandatory requirement and can be transposed through transversal skills according to the specificity of the professional field. The higher military education is the professional fields that need further attention in the future in relation to the level of compatibility between educational programs, competencies of higher education graduates and the contemporary work environment. The direct connection between the consequences of a volatile and less predictable security environment and the product of formal university-level education - the Romanian officer -, requires an update, in real time, of educational offers that enables an easy adaptation to the new military professional environment and the assumption of responsibilities based on the acquired skills. The accession, in the military 155

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