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Find the most recent country news and articles from the Eurydice network. You can search information by year and category. 

Find the most recent country news and articles from the Eurydice network. You can search information by year and category. 

Focus on: Is Pisa too slanted?

13 March 2019

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it". - Salvador Dali

It took 199 years to build the Tower of Pisa

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Focus on: Repeating the school year: does it help or hinder children's education and development?

13 March 2019

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". - Albert Einstein

As this school year finishes, most children will be

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Focus on: Funding education: who really decides?

13 March 2019

"To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and

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Focus on: Education in Europe 2020: do targets really matter?

13 March 2019

“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”- Kurt Vonnegut.

At the centre of Europe 2020 – the EU's main strategy for growth in the current decade

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Focus on: Where would 2 year olds choose to live?

13 March 2019

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

For several years, research

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Focus on: Can education make us happy?

13 March 2019

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. But we find that

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Focus on: 10 reasons to know about school holidays in Europe

13 March 2019

10 reasons to know about school holidays in Europe

Every year, Eurydice publishes a special report on school calendars that shows how the school years

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Focus On: Do we need solidarity in Europe?

12 November 2018

"Solidarity is the glue that keeps our Union together" Jean-Claude Junker, State of the European Union address to the European Parliament, September 2016

Solidarity is

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Focus on: Petite Ecole: an educational path for migrant kids

30 October 2018

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” ― Warsan Shire

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Focus On: If a healthy mind lives in a healthy body why is physical education not a priority?

17 September 2018

“You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing" G.B Shaw

It is interesting how modern life changes our

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