What could be wrong about a program of quality management in the curriculum of high education institutes? One of the first measures taken by the new leadership of the Ministry of Education and research was that of suspending a program aiming to introduce some quality evaluation criteria in the high education. Another important target was to reduce the number of non-gratuitous places in the state universities. President Iliescu himself attacked, during the latest conference of the university directors, this type of offer, bringing into discussion moral and constitutional reasons. Why that hurry, as for these two problems that, at first approach, shouldn't be one of PDSR's priorities at the beginning of the mandate. In the case of the fee places in the high education system, the real explanation is as prosaic as possible: having introduced these places massively attacked the interests of the private educational institutions, which now use the government changes. But why was this the first measure to take? Why suspend a program that only aims to promote the quality of high education? It could be a surprise only for those who don't know the Romanian university medium from inside. It is marked with inertia, personal fiefs; it is confronted now with a renewal crisis, both biologically and conceptually. The value inversions, not rare at all, together with the miserable wages, drive away the big majority of the bright graduated that should ensure the pedagogical and scientific continuity. The heaps of universities emerged out of all kind of local interests and vanities in the most unexpected places in the country lead to derisory the statute itself of the university teacher. It makes possible that famous middling individuals become over night university professors, deans or directors. How could it be possible, that revolt do not appear within such a system, when people tried