PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
Authors:   University of Bucharest, Romania, GANCIU Oana Maria 
Published: October 2024

Background. Physical education is an important component of education in general, along with the intellectual, aesthetic, technical and the moral parts of it. Moreover, it is a process of educating the physique with impact on not one but many aspects of personality formation of each individual. Cucoş considers physical education as one of the "oldest forms of exertion of formative action", having in its composition a number of activities with a role in the development of the human being "by maintaining the harmony between the physical and the mental". The general conference of UNESCO in Nairobi states that: “education, far from being limited to the period of schooling, must extend to all components and fields of knowledge, be acquired through various means and favour all forms of personality development. The educational processes in which they are employed, throughout their lives, in any form, children, young people and adults of all ages, must be considered as a whole. " Objectives. Physical education and sport are an inseparable part of the general education system, representing a necessity in ensuring the balance between intellectual and physical activity. In the conditions of an increasingly intense professional activity, the importance of physical education as a means of improving the regime of life, maintaining and increasing the working capacity of students during the study period, as well as the active resting regime, increases undoubtfully. In non-profile higher education, the training of students should not become a purpose itself. The system of knowledge, skills and motor skills must have a practical, applicative value and find its use in the future profession. The content of the lessons must be reoriented according to the specific of the profession, thus ensuring the possibility of applying the knowledge acquired in the lesson in practice. The purpose of physical education in higher education is to consolidate and maintain health, improve work capacity, improve motor skills and skills, develop intellectual, aesthetic, behavioral and moral traits, stimulate creativity, increase interest for independent practice of motor activities during spare time etc. During student hood, the activities of physical education and sport have as main objective the continuous training and the self-training action of the future specialist. The system of physical education and sport is regulated in Romania by the Law of physical education and sport. The institution that organizes the activity of sport- physical education in pre-university and university education is the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research. The university has 18 faculties, whose students participate in the physical education and sports lessons during four semesters, with a total volume of 112 hours of applications, whose norms are done in groups, the distribution being one lesson of two hours per week. Due to the autonomy of the university, it can be said that there is no unitary line and a common program at the faculty level, especially at the non-profile ones, as there is no well-defined status. Conclusion. There is an increased interest expressed especially by students and less by the management factors, for the improvement and promotion of this discipline, as an efficient and accessible means of training and educating young people. It is necessary to carry out complex national programs for young people, which aim to stimulate interest and to create the habit of systematically and continuously practice of physical exercises in order to integrate more quickly into social life.