EUNEC organized a seminar for its members on the theme of 'Community Schools'. The programme included a key note presentation by professor Alan Dyson, presentations of policy practices from the Member Councils, and a visit to 'Sint Joost aan Zee', a community school in the city center of Brussels.
This SIRIUS network study was undertaken with the purpose of mapping the positions of European civil society stakeholders and some stakeholders in EU member states on the education of migrants in Europe.
EUNEC has been interviewed by Ms Maria Golubeva, author of the study.
On 20 November 2012 the European Commission has published an impressive set of policy recommendations that have to reinforce the cooperation between EU Member States and give a new impetus to education policy in the EU Member States. The most important part of the proposal is the Communication ‘Rethinking education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes’ The Commission takes the opportunity of the long expected Communication on skills to gather all aspects of European Education and Training policy in an encompassing framework and to give some new impetus. The European Commission wants to put Education and Training high on the agenda, in the EU and in the Member States.
Mr Boris Sloboda, Policy Officer at DG EAC (Education and training in Europe 2020; country analysis) explained the role of Education and Training in Europe 2020, insisting on the mechanisms of the new governance under the European Semester, and analysing the recent Annual Growth Survey 2013. The second part of his presentation focused on the headlines, the objectives and the background of the Communication of the European Commission 'Rethinking education'.
On 15-17 October 2012, EUNEC organised a conference on the theme of migration and education, hosted by the colleagues from the Pedagogical Institute in the Cyprus MOEC (Ministry of Education and Culture).
A combination of presentations and discussions with international experts, debate in workshops and a school visit to two schools in the ZEP (Zone of Educational Priority) in Larnaca, has lead to common statements on the subject.
‘Erasmus for all’ is the new EU Programme for education, training, youth and sport proposed by the European Commission on 23 November 2011.
The proposal integrates the seven existing programmes on education and training (Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius, Grundtvig), Youth in Action, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink and the programme for cooperation with industrialized countries).
EUNEC was invited at the first meeting of the group of stakeholder organisations working on ECEC and ESL, which took place at 26 June 201 in BRUSSELS.
A full report of the event will be soon available.
Francisco Lopez Ruperez, until now president of the Education Council of Madrid, was nominated as President of the National Education Council. Lopez Rupérez holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Madrid. He was director general of the Education Centres of the Ministry of Education, Secretary General of Education and Training of the Ministry. He has also held the post of Counsellor for Education in the permanent delegations of Spain to the OECD and to UNESCO, based in Paris. He is author of a dozen books and hundreds of publications in Spanish and foreign journals. These include those relating to educational policy issues such as quality management in education, freedom of choice in education, Education and the challenges of globalization.
During the first meeting of the Public Education Council in Hungary, Tas Szebedy has been elected president, in the presence of Rozsa Hoffmann, secretary of state.
The Council had at its first seance a short debate about the new national curriculum (the NAT, Nemzeti Alap Tanterv).
