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Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
Romanian education policy was notoriously plagued by instability and a
tendency to escape the normal policymaking cycle via top-down highly politicised
reforms. After almost three decades, a new initiative by the President of Romania
attempts to promote a more inclusive style of policymaking that would ensure wider
societal support to upcoming educational reforms. The purpose of this article is to
set the background to the wider discussion on Romanian higher education, placing it
inside the context of the country’s efforts to reform its schools and universities via the
Educated Romania project, on which the authors had the privilege of working. It aims
to create a long-term, structured vision on which to centre future education reforms
and to correct some of the imbalances that have emerged in Romanian education
over the past few decades. The conclusion also analyses the chances of its survival
in the current Romanian political and administrative status-quo.
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