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Welcome to the New Year Edition of the Eurydice Newsletter
New year, new start, new Eurydice Newsletter - your update on recent and forthcoming Eurydice publications and news from the world of European education.
Latest publications
Education Budgets in Europe 2013
Lack of recent information on public investment in education in Europe has made it difficult to monitor and discuss the topic. This report should fill the gap. .

Welcome to the New Year Edition of the Eurydice Newsletter
New year, new start, new Eurydice Newsletter - your update on recent and forthcoming Eurydice publications and news from the world of European education.
Latest publications
Education and Training in Europe 2020. Responses from the EU Member States
How have countries so far responded to the Europe 2020 priorities in the field of education and training?.

Welcome to the New Year Edition of the Eurydice Newsletter
New year, new start, new Eurydice Newsletter - your update on recent and forthcoming Eurydice publications and news from the world of European education.
Latest publications
Towards a Mobility Scoreboard: Conditions for Learning Abroad in Europe
First ever report outlining and 'scoring' existing EU Member State policies to help and encourage higher education students to spend part of their studies or training abroad.

Welcome to the New Year Edition of the Eurydice Newsletter
New year, new start, new Eurydice Newsletter - your update on recent and forthcoming Eurydice publications and news from the world of European education. Education systems vary enormously across Europe. Eurydice's task is to understand and explain how they work and to share that information with you. Eurydice wishes you a happy 2014!

The Act on short cycle higher vocational education has marked some changes in November 2013. The amendments to the Act will bring more autonomy for higher vocational colleges regarding the implementation of curriculum. The process of accreditation of new programmes has been simplified, while it still stays in the domain of a committee nominated by the Council of Experts for Vocational Education of the Republic of Slovenia. The changes are also expected to increase the flow of knowledge from the industries to the education institutions, since the path for the experts from the practice to teach in the higher vocational colleges has been cleared up. Further collaboration with social partners regarding practical education has been ensured by the introduction of a procedure for nominating the relevant chamber of commerce and industry and consequently funds for practical education. Traditionally in Slovenia, short cycle higher vocational education is provided in vocational colleges and is characterized by good responsiveness to the needs of the labour market demands and high employability of its students.

Source: Slovenian Eurydice Unit

Spain has made a great effort to achieve the generalisation of the constitutional right to education and the guarantee of a free basic compulsory education, and this free-of-charge nature is extended to the second cycle of Pre-primary Education, to Upper General Secondary Education and to Intermediate Vocational Education in public schools and some publicly funded private schools.
The current education system has to face new challenges, such as reducing the early school leaving rate and improving the academic performance of 15 year old students and of the population between 16 and 65 years of age.
Due to all of these reasons, this education reform includes some measures with the following intentions:

• To improve the conditions to ensure that all students can acquire and express their talents and develop their full personal and professional potential, as a base for equal opportunity.
• To tackle the main problems detected in the Spanish education system through the objective results of the assessments conducted by international organisms.
• To simplify the curriculum, to reinforce instrumental knowledge, to increase the flexibility of educational pathways, to develop consistent external evaluation systems, to promote a greater autonomy and specialisation of schools, to increase result transparency and accountability, and to promote the culture of effort.
• To converge towards the European education objectives found within the Europe 2020 strategy.

The regulations for the development of the act will shortly be processed, having previously consulted with the Autonomous Communities, the organizations and the entities of the educational community and with all citizens in general.

Source: Spanish Eurydice – REDIE.

The Ministry of Education and Science introduced the curriculum standards, which clarify what is considered to be the essential outcomes for students within the programme, while providing teachers with pedagogic freedom to teach. Together with the curricula for the different subjects, the standards are crucial references for teaching development. The programmes contain clearly defined priorities, indicating the knowledge to be acquired and capabilities to be developed by students in each school year. The curriculum standards are an essential learning reference for students in each subject and by year of schooling. The use of this regulatory document is progressively compulsory from the academic year 2013-2020 onwards. As guiding principles, the standards should help to identify the performance that demonstrates the knowledge acquired and what skills should be developed, assisting teachers, parents and students to identify if standards have been met and where difficulties may reside.

Source: Portuguese Eurydice Unit

It’s fair to say that universities in Australia dominate the new edition of the QS Top 50 Under 50 – a ranking of the world’s top 50 universities under 50 years old, based on the 2013/14 QS World University Rankings®. With nine entries, Australia has comfortably more high-ranking young universities than any other country; the next closest contender is Spain, which has five universities included. More...

In order to study in Australia, you will need to obtain an Australian student visa. You must be able to prove to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) that you meet the following key Australian student visa requirements: Genuine Student Requirement, Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE) requirement, financial requirements, English proficiency requirements, and health and character requirements. You’ll need to complete an Australian student visa application form, pay the visa application fee, and perhaps attend an interview. Read on for more detail on what all of this involves. More...

Die 22. LEARNTEC ist am heutigen Donnerstag erfolgreich zu Ende gegangen. 6.685 internationale Fachbesucher (2013: 6.068 Besucher) zog es an den drei Veranstaltungstagen in die Messe Karlsruhe.
LEARNTEC Kongress und Fachmesse haben 2014 gezeigt, dass die digitale Revolution der Bildung nicht nur bevorsteht sondern im Gange ist und wie sie aktiv gestaltet werden muss. Durch die enge Verzahnung von Messe und Kongress standen insbesondere Praxis-Beispiele im Vordergrund.
Eine Fotoauswahl gibt es auf der LEARNTEC-Website. More...