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Recommended Annual Instruction Time in Full-time Compulsory Education in Europe – 2024/2025

08 July 2025

Effective learning depends on many factors, but undoubtedly, the instruction time available to students plays a key role in their learning process. Along with the quality of instruction and the time available for learning after school, the increase in the amount of instruction time allocated to a discipline can help to raise students’ interest in...

The organisation of school time in Europe. Primary and general secondary education - 2023/2024

28 September 2023

This report provides information on the start of the school year and its length, as well as the timing and length of school holidays. It covers both primary and general secondary education. The information is available for the 37 countries participating in the EU's Erasmus+ programme (27 Member States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Iceland...

Recommended Annual Instruction Time in Full-time Compulsory Education in Europe – 2022/2023

20 June 2023

Effective learning depends on many factors, but undoubtedly, the instruction time available to students plays a key role in their learning process. Along with the quality of instruction and the time available for learning after school, the increase in the amount of instruction time allocated to a discipline can help to raise students’ interest in...

Recommended Annual Instruction Time in Full-time Compulsory Education in Europe 2020/21

21 May 2021

Effective learning depends on many factors, but undoubtedly, the instruction time available to students plays a key role in their learning process. Along with the quality of instruction and the time available for learning after school, the increase in the amount of instruction time allocated to a discipline can help to raise students’ interest in...