THE ORADEA STATEMENT

Considering the importance attached by the participants in the International High‐Level Consultation on Policy Issues of Quality Assessment and Institutional Accreditation in Higher Education to the issues of quality assurance and assessment and the need to further co‐operate in the field in order for the central and eastern European systems of higher education to face present and future challenges, the Bureau of the meeting, assisted by the Secretariat of CEPES, proposed a Statement for adoption by the participants. A discussion of this Statement, to be known informally as the Oradea Statement, took place; some suggestions were made, and finally it was adopted as follows: