Our colleague, Diana Hidan (married Dura) from the Doctoral School of Administration and Public Policy, FSPAC, Babes-Bolyai University (BBU), had on 18.06.2024 the public defense of her PhD thesis, whose title is “Functional analphabetism in the context of the interaction between citizens and public administration”. The thesis was elaborated under the scientific coordination of Prof. Felicia Cornelia Macarie. The selection committee decided to award the degree of Doctor of Administrative Sciences with the grade “very good”, to our colleague.

The thesis explored the extent to which educational policies and practices, aimed at different communities in the Northwest Region of Romania, protect vulnerable classes from social exclusion perpetuated by the existence of intensive forms of segregation against the background of illiteracy.