A principal founder of the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) reflects on its origins. Inaugurated in September 1972 as part of the detente process of those days and the efforts of Romania to increase the presence of the United Nations and its specialized agencies in Bucharest, the Centre assumed the task of promoting…

Discussion asserts that Romania recognizes the crucial importance of higher education's role in the development of the knowledge society of the twenty-first century, the importance of university education for the training of young people, and the need to develop Romanian higher education according to the norms of the Bologna Process and of…

Romania's prime minister evokes the role of UNESCO-CEPES as a forum for discussion of the principal issues of higher education. The pre-1989 activities of the Centre are compared to the post-1989 ones and to the role of the Centre in supporting the general reform of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. (EV)

The Romanian aproach to the concept of integrating education in general and higher technical education in particular with scientific research and production is outlined. It is illustrated with an engineering program of the Bucharest Polytechnic and its relationship with research and industry. (MSE)