“The 27 European Union member countries have taken a symbolically important step to provide a pan-European character to their education and training systems, a policy area traditionally reserved for national governments in the EU. The EU’s Council of Ministers earlier this month adopted what they called a ‘strategic framework’ for cooperation to reform national education systems, including the tertiary sector, saying this sent ‘an important signal in the current economic crisis’ …” (more)
[Alan Osborn, University World News, 24 May]