A reform of vocational education and training programmes came into force in Denmark on 1 August 2015. It aims at ensuring high quality vocational education

This means that talented children will be introduced at a younger age to subjects like physics, and that pupils will be better prepared for the

The financing principle “the money follows the pupil” or better known as the “pupil voucher” implemented in Lithuania has been criticised for a number of

A new law (4354/2015) on 'Management of non-performing loans, wage settlements and other urgent regulatory provisions concerning the agreement of budgetary objectives and structural reforms'

'Culture and education … are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups …and in the reproduction of those differences' – Pierre Bourdieu

Leaders and citizens realise that, without the European Union and its unity, we could not face the problems of terrorism, migrants, and refugees. – Federica

'...we have come to realise that for most men (sic) the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school' – Ivan Illich

On the same day of the award of the 'Global Teacher Prize', the Ministry of Education has announced the launch of a national teacher prize

'Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted' – Albert Einstein

In recent decades there has been

Photo credit: ©Izabela Urbaniak 2016 

'In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet