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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

2025

Changes in the principles of tuition‑free higher education and study cost reimbursement

From the 2024/2025 academic year, stricter rules have been introduced regarding repeated free enrolment at the same level of higher education. Full‑time higher education programmes in Estonian language remain tuition‑free for first‑time entrants under the updated Higher Education Act.  

Key changes:

Key features of the Education System

Principles for education in Denmark and key features of the Danish education system include:

2025

Tripartite agreement to ensure qualified staff in ECEC, elderly care and hospitals

The Danish government has entered into a tripartite agreement with Local Government Denmark, Danish Regions, the Danish Trade Union Confederation and FOA trade union to, among other things, improve the quality of ECEC, elderly care and healthcare at hospitals by ensuring more qualified staff.

2025

Government proposal for a new marking scale

The Danish government proposes to introduce a new marking scale to remove the big leap in the middle of the current marking scale, to remove the current negative mark (-3) and to focus on what the pupils and students can do instead of deficiencies in their performance.

Background

Structure of the chapter

This chapter provides a thematic and chronological overview of national reforms and policy developments since 2022. The web pages that follow group reforms in the following broad thematic areas:

  • Early childhood education and care

  • General school education

  • Vocational education and training

  • Higher education

Key Features of the Education System

Schools administered within the public administration; responsibilities distributed among the central government, regions and municipalities

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, as the body responsible for the state administration in the area of education:

Cyprus, Greece, Hellenes Abroad: Educational Bridges

The Minister of Education, Sports, and Youth of Cyprus, represented the president of the Republic of Cyprus during the award ceremony of the 10th International Student Competition titled "Cyprus, Greece, Diaspora: Educational Bridges.”, held on April 23, 2024.

2025

Enactment of the legislation on the offer of foreign-language undergraduate study programs by public universities

In a written statement, the minister of Education, Sports and Youth (MESY) refers to the enactment of the legislation on the offer of foreign-language undergraduate study programs by public universities.

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