European Citizenship

The integration of Europe’s immigrants through schooling should become a major policy priority by the end of this decade. The EU education ministers have agreed to ramp up investment. Recent OECD data showed many countries are failing to help children of immigrants integrate.

The ministers decided that language support has to play a key role. They also agreed to make vocational training more market responsive. The number of students who leave school early was also discussed. Read the rest of this entry »

Europe: the next 50 years!

Pupils working in a group of 3 can post their ideas for a better future in Europe, in the categories:

Theme 1: globalisation

Theme 2: climate change

Theme 3: Europe in the world

Theme 4: My country, a democracy

Theme 5: Working together, Living Together

  Elos School Visser ’t Hooft Lyceum wins Prize for Learning Environment and gets the European Language Label

This Dutch secondary school received the European Language Label with its digital learning environment Vreemdetaal.nl  The site was an initiative of teacher Marleen Spierings, and is unique as it was created by teachers and students from across Europe.
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