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European Education

01.07.2008 @ 08:36 CET

EUOBSERVER / FOCUS - For years, the EU has talked about creating a "knowledge economy" and aimed at improving higher education. But very few European universities make it to the global top-lists and the number of Europeans receiving Nobel prizes is steadily declining. In this special FOCUS on education, EUobserver turns the spotlight on the latest developments in the sector.

European managers hesitate to join China study programme

14.11.2008 @ 09:31 CET

A European programme worth 23 million euro has managed to send only one third of the number of students possible under the scheme to study in China.

Time to link academia to business needs, says EU commissioner

01.07.2008 @ 09:09 CET

European universities need to step out from their traditional isolation from the outside world in order to avoid producing jobless graduates, EU education commissioner Jan Figel has said.

EU struggles with growing teen illiteracy

11.07.2008 @ 09:32 CET

A growing proportion of teenagers in the EU have poor literacy skills, a fresh European Commission report has found.

Anti-Bologna movement spreads in Spain

15.12.2008 @ 17:54 CET

Opposition to the Bologna Process, an EU-inspired series of university and college reforms, has expanded substantially across Spain in recent weeks, as students protest, occupy school buildings and even block rail lines.

EU member states fear scholarship tourism

01.07.2008 @ 08:39 CET

As more and more young Europeans study in member states other than their own, this has serious implications for how governments manage their social assistance for students. A keenly-awaited preliminary ruling next month is set to shed some light on the hot issue.

[Comment] Before Copenhagen is flooded

01.07.2008 @ 10:47 CET

With international politicians and academics set to descend en masse on the Danish capital next autumn to debate the way forward on climate change, the vice-chancellor of the University of Copenhagen urges the political and scientific spheres to work together for once.

European universities struggle to open their minds

01.07.2008 @ 09:59 CET

European universities are getting better at raising money, linking-up with industry and breaking down national barriers in a race against US and Asian schools. But tension between some aspects of academic culture and government policy threatens to hold back Europe's leap forward.

Foreign students should get special visa to study in EU

01.07.2008 @ 08:41 CET

Foreign students must get easier access to the European Union if the bloc is to catch up with US standards of education and its own goals of making itself the foremost competitive and dynamic region in the world, MEPs have said. Critics of the new proposals suggest they risk being elitist.

European college grooms EU elite

01.07.2008 @ 09:46 CET

At a time when studying in a country other than one's own is getting increasingly popular in the EU, a post-graduate university with campuses in two member states claims to be 'the most genuinely European' university institute of European studies.

Inching towards a European Higher Education Area

01.07.2008 @ 09:45 CET

National education systems of higher education are labyrinthine enough for students when they arrive at college, university or training institute. Taking those credits or qualifications abroad and having other schools or employers understand them has always been a Herculean task, and not just for those studying Ancient Rome.