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In 2019 the European Universities Initiative started. Since then, 44 European Universities alliances were created, with 340 participating higher education institutions. This study evaluates the selection procedures and assesses the experiences of the first years. It also drafts three scenarios to map future developments. Recommendations to the EP aim to strengthen the sustainability of the EUAs, create better regulatory conditions and improve the learning processes.

Attention to the teaching of values has recently increased and is evident in the education policies of all EU Member States, also for the values of democracy and tolerance. Teaching Common Values (TCV) is fairly important in half of the EU Member States. However, TCV is often not very strongly implemented in education policy in terms of concrete curriculum instruments and in supporting measures. This results in practices that do not always give real attention to TCV.

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 ...

The ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’ and other EU initiatives call for more excellence in Europe’s higher education institutions in order to improve their performance, international attractiveness and competitiveness. In this context the relevance of quality in higher education gained momentum. The Study examines separately two different quality approaches, quality assurance and rankings, and takes stock of latest achievements. This is followed by a critical analysis of these approaches in a comparative perspective ...

Work experience is highly valued by firms, and lack of such experience therefore constitutes a major obstacle for first-time jobseekers. Many young people are trapped in a vicious circle: they cannot find a first job, but they cannot get a job because they do not have any work experience. Apprenticeships are proven to have a large-scale impact on youth employment promotion, and are a major reason for the low levels of youth unemployment in some European countries. In both the Rethinking Education ...

This study provides input to the European Parliament’s Committee on Education and Culture on teacher quality in primary schools in Europe. It assesses the state of initial teacher training, early career support and continuous professional development in Europe from the perspective of individual teachers and teacher educators. We report on the extent to which these subsystems within the continuum of teacher education help teachers confront challenges in their classrooms, at school and system level ...

This study examines the strengths and weaknesses of dual education/apprenticeships and explores policy developments in the EU- 28 in relation to the introduction and/or improvement of apprenticeship schemes. The study is based on data from a variety of sources, including academic literature and in-depth research in 10 EU countries. It identifies the characteristics of four main forms of VET delivery in relation to the role of work-based learning and suggests ways that countries could promote apprenticeships ...

The study analyses admission systems to higher education across ten countries, covering some countries of the European Union (France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom), a candidate country (Turkey) as well as commonly used international comparators (Australia, Japan and the US). These countries are compared on three axes: the equity of admissions, their quality and their ability to encourage students’ mobility. On this basis, recommendations are provided with regard to admission ...

The study describes the place occupied by the European dimension in the European secondary education at the beginning of the new millenium and underlines the principal assets, but also the possible imperfections, currently met on this subject in the whole of the European education systems in the fifteen Member States of the European Union as well as in the Candidate countries. It also considers the role that the European institutions, and in particular the European Parliament, could play in the future ...