News

The EU has closed the funding gap for Erasmus

12 / 12 / 2012

Current and future Erasmus students can be reassured: Member States and the European Parliament have averted a funding crisis which threatened the popular exchange scheme after a last-ditch agreement which has enabled the EU to plug a shortfall in the 2012 budget and remove uncertainty about funding for 2013.

How is education structured across Europe?

10 / 12 / 2012

Eurydice has produced a 12 pages brochure with diagrams that in an easy way portray all the educational systems in Europe, country by country.

How old are children when they enter primary education in Finland? How long does secondary education last in Germany? And what is the duration of higher education in Belgium?

Commission launches EU Skills Panorama

10 / 12 / 2012

The European Commission has launched the EU Skills Panorama, a website presenting quantitative and qualitative information on short- and medium-term skills needs, skills supply and skills mismatches.

New materials to support international work in schools

01 / 12 / 2012

The website http://school-partnerships.eu and the resources on it are for teachers and school leaders who coordinate the international work of their schools. The materials presented here were created by an EU funded partnership between organisations in Austria, Germany, Romania and the UK.

Commission presents new Rethinking Education strategy

26 / 11 / 2012

The youth unemployment rate is close to 23% across the European Union – yet at the same time there are more than 2 million vacancies that cannot be filled.

New European training course on Creativity and Learning 2013

18 / 11 / 2012

The Learning Teacher Network's much appreciated European training course "Creativity and Learning" will be given again in 2013. The course will be located to Malta on 8-12 October 2013 and has the course number SE-2013-181-001 in the EU training database.

Call for presentations for the Lisbon Conference 2013

14 / 10 / 2012

We are delighted to announce that the 9th International Conference will be held at the four star Hotel Tivoli Oriente in Lisbon, Portugal on 26-28 September 2013. The title of the conference is “Education for Sustainable Development”.

Nobel Peace Prize 2012 awarded to the European Union

12 / 10 / 2012

The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe. The committee said the EU had helped to transform Europe "from a continent of war to a continent of peace". It was a unanimous decision by the five-member panel of the Nobel committee.

Teachers' salaries reduced or frozen in growing number of European countries

09 / 10 / 2012

Sixteen European countries have reduced or frozen teachers' salaries in response to the economic downturn.

Exclusive seminar on Modern Mentoring in Bucharest on 18th October

25 / 09 / 2012

On the 18th of October 2012 at Hotel Novotel in Bucharest, ITOL (Institute of Training and Occupational Learning) is organising an exclusive seminar, "Harnessing the power of mentoring" , held by the father of modern mentoring, Prof. David Clutterbuck. We can warmly recommend this event.