Eurydice

In March 2023, the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany [www.kmk.org] (Kultusministerkonferenz) agreed on further measures in response to the need for teachers. In the joint declaration, the Länder reaffirmed their close cooperation to date and agreed on the following measures, among others, as a further response to the demand for teachers: 

A new white paper on the Norwegian education system, “The Perspective Paper” (“Utsynsmeldingen”), emphasizes the need for an education providing people with the skills that society needs for the green transition, a highly productive working life and good welfare services in the future. 

Among the several challenges, the Norwegian Government has identified the following: 

In April 2022, the Minister of Education and the Regional Centre for Early Childhood Care (RZKB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in order to convert the RZKB from a non-profit organization to a public interest institution. This Memorandum of Understanding sets the framework for the reorientation of early childhood care. Both the Regional Centre for Early Childhood Care (RZKB) and the service for the healthy development of children and young people, Kaleido Ostbelgien, are affected by the reorientation.  

The pandemic, the difficult adaptation to online learning, and the war in Ukraine have had a psychological impact on pupils, affecting the mental health of children and young people. As a result, since 1st January 2023, a reform of the counselling system has been gradually introduced in Slovakia, in order to make support more accessible and provide more efficient and comprehensive counselling services. The reform aims to facilitate the provision of services that respond to the needs of children, pupils, and families, without basing these on mere diagnoses.

To encourage wellbeing and healthy lifestyles, the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation (MEYR) is collaborating with several entities to offer schoolchildren increased access to sport. This is being done by enabling sports sessions to be held on the school premises or with the school’s support, both as part of the school timetable, as well as through activities organised during break or after school.

On 27 January 2023, the French Minister of Education, Youth and Sports presented the digital strategy for education for the period 2023-2027. The strategy aims to address several challenges: 

On Monday 3 April 2023, a public debate on education was held in the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, in the light of the main developments that the field of education is soon going to experience. A curriculum renewal, the drafting of the National Education Programme for the 2023-2033 period, and the preparation of legislative changes are key items on the agenda. The public hearing was organised by the National Assembly’s Committee on Education, Science and Youth.

In order to attract more people to the teaching profession, a shortened study programme for people with a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree started at the “Autonome Hochschule Ostbelgien” (AHS) in September 2022.  

Since March 2023, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research has been providing a new national platform (monmaster.gouv.fr) enabling students to consult all national master's degrees and to apply directly on the platform to access to the first year of a master's degree. One single application is to be submitted according to a single national calendar.  

In September 2022, an experimental phase was rolled out with a view to extending the exhaustive standardised national assessments in French and Mathematics to 4th and 8th graders (i.e., pupils in CM1 and 4ème). Currently, these evaluations were only conducted in grades 1, 2, 6 and 10 (i.e., CP, CE1, 6ème and 2nde). The aim of the trial was to ensure the quality and reliability of the exercises proposed, before their extension at the beginning of the 2023-24 school year.