Education Minister Ligia Deca said on Tuesday that the process of accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) represents a unique opportunity, through Romania’s participation in the working groups and projects carried out by the organisation.
The statement was made at the launch event of the OECD publication “Education at a Glance 2023,” organised at the “Carol I” Central University Library.
“Today (Tuesday – ed. n), in addition to the simultaneous launch in the world of the Education at a Glance 2023 report, probably the best known OECD report in the education area, a launch that also marks a symbolic moment, namely Romania’s participation for the first time, we also mark (…) the debut of Romania’s participation in the INES network. The INES network is the network for comparing indicators that target national education systems. Basically, this step materialises part of the sustained efforts that the Ministry of Education is making to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Educated Romania vision, which was the basis of the new education laws, incorporated a series of four OECD reviews dedicated to Romania. They focused on topics of interest for the professionalisation of the teaching career, increasing access to quality early education, increasing educational equity and improving educational management in the pre-university system,” said Ligia Deca.
According to the minister, the OECD accession process represents a unique opportunity.
“Basically, the process of accession to the OECD represents a unique opportunity through Romania’s participation in the working groups and projects carried out by the organisation with member and partner countries, but what I think will help us enormously is that the pre-accession process coincides with the implementation of the education laws. Basically, the results that we will see from the analyses carried out together with our colleagues from the OECD will help us to better manage all these analyses and the challenges that sometimes we know and sometimes we only intuit in the Romanian education system,” said Deca.
The Ministry of Education points out that, as a result of participating in INES, Romania is included for the first time in the Education at a Glance 2023 (EaG 2023) publication, alongside OECD member states and other candidate countries, and through the OECD’s assessments and comparative studies of education systems, Romania can evaluate and monitor its developments over time, thus providing the opportunity to make effective adjustments in education policies.
