Education
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Czech Republic: ‘Zeman threatens university freedom’
20 May 201367PresseuropLidové noviny -
Spain: ‘Public school teachers take to the streets against education reform’
10 May 2013564PresseuropEl País -
Hungary: ‘Despair takes to the streets’
12 February 201341PresseuropNépszabadság -
United Kingdom: EU teaching dropped over claims it is ‘biased towards integration’
8 February 201343411PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
School: Gap widens between Asia and Europe
12 December 201210811PresseuropLa Vanguardia, NRC Handelsblad, Die Tageszeitung -
Education : Erasmus is going bankrupt
4 October 2012148524PresseuropLa Vanguardia, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Romania: Discipline, spelling and singing order of day
12 September 201113PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
University: Oxford on the polders
30 August 20112234 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Belgium: “Black flight” from primary schools
30 August 2011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Romania: Exam disaster for Google generation
4 July 2011111PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Netherlands: University scandal
29 April 201136PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Poland: Government better than Santa?
28 March 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Education: Slovakia, land of doctorate tourism
25 March 20111PresseuropSME -
Czech Republic: Schoolkids taught to "compete" with China
1 March 20111PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Netherlands: Multi-ethnic schools not a priority
7 February 201114PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
PISA ranking: Even Finland has dunces
8 December 2010PresseuropAamulehti -
Italy: Universities in revolt
1 December 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
University: Education for all... but who pays?
15 November 2010893 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
United Kingdom: Student rage hits London
11 November 20101PresseuropThe Guardian -
Belgium: Catholic university drops the C word
7 October 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
United Kingdom: Nein, we don’t speak foreign
25 August 20101PresseuropThe Independent -
Germany: Why Munich gets As, Berlin Ds
5 July 20101PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Germany / Austria / Switzerland: Hey teacher, don’t leave our kids alone
24 June 2010131PresseuropDie Presse -
EU / Latin America: Bologna process to make Atlantic crossing?
2 June 2010PresseuropEl País -
University: European court upholds foreigners quota
14 April 2010PresseuropDer Standard -
University: Schools feel cost of crisis
30 March 201043 Adevărul Bucharest -
Czech Republic: Schoolkids to get lessons on debt
21 January 2010PresseuropLidové noviny -
Czech Republic: Apartheid begins in the school
8 December 2009104 Respekt Prague -
University: A taste of academia bolognaise
26 November 2009164 Presseurop -
United Kingdom: Queen to declare "good" education a right
18 November 2009PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Education: Anarchy in the uni
13 November 200949 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Austria: Looking for the student billion
6 November 2009PresseuropDie Presse -
Universities: Free education, a pipe dream?
30 October 2009353 Der Standard Vienna -
Supreme Court: Who is a Jew?
28 October 20091PresseuropThe Guardian -
Alternative education: Where skool can be cool
15 October 2009701 Cafebabel.com Paris -
University: Austria, low-cost Mecca for German students
15 October 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
University: Europe tops rankings
9 October 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
School: French pupils bribed to go to class
6 October 2009PresseuropLibération -
University: English takes over Europe's lecture halls
16 September 2009383 El País Madrid -
Portugal: Nation's toddlers are underfunded
2 September 2009PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Romania: New money spinner with non-EU students
26 August 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Germany: The PhD giveaway
25 August 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Belarus: A university in exile
31 July 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Germany: Generation angst
15 June 2009PresseuropDer Spiegel -
University: Erasmus, makers of Europeans since 1987
3 June 2009923 Le Monde Paris -
Belgium: Cement Sadist attacks Education minister
28 May 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Ireland: Bad education
25 May 2009524 The Irish Times Dublin
Easier and cheaper enrolment plus courses taught in English: for young Brits, studying in the Netherlands is the fashionable new trend for escaping the problems besetting universities back home. 
There is nothing anodyne about the violent student protests in London, writes Dagens Nyheter, now that the controversy surrounding the hike in college fees has raised the question of the cost of university education for the masses. 
The education sector in Europe has been hard hit by cuts in budgets, personnel and investment. Some universities, e.g. in the UK, might even have to be closed down. And some leading institutions could soon lose their top international rankings.
A third of Roma children in the Czech Republic attend special schools for the mentally handicapped. A situation against which a number of associations are speaking out, and which ends up backfiring on the state when it has to foot the social and economic bill. 
European university reforms keep rocking the Continental campus. For several weeks now, German students have been objecting to the excessive workload and deplorable conditions at university. And the row over the merits and demerits of the “Bologna process” is raging all across the nation’s press. 
French university reforms saw the birth of revolts and street protests, but also the emergence of alternative higher education projects. Cafebabel reports from self-governing universities that aim to abolish hierachy and reiterate the much-attacked notion that education is an end in itself, and not just about getting a job. 
Over the last two weeks, Austrian students demanding a free education have taken control of Vienna's universities. But the question of higher education financing should not be a taboo subject, argues economist Andreas Schibany in Der Standard. 
In Denmark's Højskoles, there are no examinations, the timetable is open and you learn at your own speed. Cafébabel.com gives the thumbs up to a type of education free of "competition" where students can "freely express their creativity". 
The European Higher Education Area arrives is officially launched at the start of 2010, with the aim to harmonise studies across the European space. But in what language? With European universities offering more and more university degree programmes in English, their British counterparts are beginning to worry about losing their “competitive edge”, notes El País. 
After being closed down by the goverment in 2004, Minsk's European Humanities University is now based in Lithuania, with some help from the EU. Its aim is to educate the elite that will run the democratic Belarus of the future. 
Since 1987, 1.7 millions students have benefited from the Erasmus university exchange programme. Twenty years on, has it helped forge a European spirit? asks Le Monde. 
A nation is reeling from the findings of the Child Abuse Commission in which rape and sexual molestation were "endemic" in Irish Catholic church-run industrial schools and orphanages. Fintan O'Toole in the Irish Times wonders how a society could have consigned children "to a system of terror."