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Das vorliegende Dokument ist die Zusammenfassung der Studie mit dem Titel „The European Universities Initiative: first lessons, main challenges and perspectives“ (Die Initiative „Europäische Hochschulen“: erste Erkenntnisse, wichtigste Herausforderungen und Aussichten). Die vollständige Studie ist in englischer Sprache unter folgendem Link abrufbar: bit.ly/3XF2KUX

The European Union complements national health and education policies, in particular those with a cross-border dimension. The main responsibility for health and education, however, lies with the governments of its Member States. This combination explains the spread in government expenditure on national welfare policies among the Member States, and in particular in individual direct payments for health. In terms of the gender gap in the area, women with tertiary education still suffer employment gaps ...

This briefing summarises the conclusions of a study on ‘Teaching common values in Europe’ prepared by an international team of researchers for the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament. The study explores the teaching of common values in Europe, in particular democracy and tolerance—if and how they are addressed by EU Member States' official curricula for students in secondary education. The role of civil society and non-governmental organisations is also considered. Country ...

Russia's education system has undergone many reforms since Soviet times, but still retains a significant number of traditional features. Comparative tests such as PISA show that, in schools, students do well by international standards and that their skills are improving. On the other hand, there is a serious lack of quality in the country's universities.

This European Implementation Assessment has been provided to accompany the work of the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education in scrutinising the implementation of the Erasmus+ programme. The Erasmus+ programme for Union action in the field of education, training, youth and sport was launched on 1 January 2014 and will run until 31 December 2020. It brings together seven successful programmes which operated separately between 2007 and 2013 (the Lifelong Learning Programme, five ...

Equipping immigrants with the necessary skills to achieve successful integration is a central preoccupation of policy-makers in the EU and beyond. The integration challenges of migrant students in formal educational systems tend to be essentially related to the three main components of education – access, participation and performance. While access to education is legally guaranteed, it remains difficult. Access to quality education is even more problematic. An additional concern for migrant students ...

This study addresses the question of similarities and differences of the education evaluation approaches of the EU and the OECD with the aim of exploring the possibilities of further developing the education evaluation system and the related policies of the EU. The study analyses the existing EU level educational evaluation practices and policies with a special focus on the use of educational indicators and the assessment of pupil competences. On the basis of the analysis a number of recommendations ...

This note prepared by the Economic Governance Support Unit presents selected information on the current status of the EU economic governance procedures and related relevant information in view of an Economic Dialogue with Harris Georgiades, Minister of Finance of Cyprus, in accordance with the EU legal framework, in particular Article 2a of EU Regulation 1467 as amended by Regulation 1177/2011 and Article 7(10) of EU Regulation 472/2013.

Die Leistung und Qualität der Hochschulbildung sagen viel über die Fähigkeit eines Landes aus, seine zukünftige wirtschaftliche Entwicklung zu fördern. Das Anwerben von Talenten findet derzeit auf internationaler Ebene statt. Zwar liegen die USA mit 17 % internationalen Studenten noch immer an der Spitze, die EU gewinnt jedoch mit dem Vereinigten Königreich, Frankreich und Deutschland mit jeweils 13 %, 6 % und 6 % internationalen Studenten an Beliebtheit. Einer der Gründe für die weltweite Beliebtheit ...

Gender equality in education is guaranteed by law in EU Member States, so the issues are far more complex than simply that of gaining access to education for girls, as remains the problem in many developing countries. Yet despite the legal equality in the EU, inequalities persist because of the educational choices that girls make, which may prevent them from achieving the potential they show earlier in education. Moreover, care needs to be taken not to ignore the problem of low-performing boys, a ...