Improving the quality of education is a constant concern of national policy-makers. Evaluation of the education offered pupils is one of the means by which this aim may be achieved. Such evaluation may assume several forms depending on the components subject to investigation, whether they be the...

This report was prepared at the initiative of the Commission of the European Communities by the EURYDICE National Unit, Directorate of the European Communities, Ministry of Education, Athens, Greece in collaboration with the EURYDICE European Unit, Brussels, Belgium. The original version of the...

Terminology used to denote educational institutions is constantly changing. For a more ready insight into their activity as cooperation between them intensifies in Europe, Eurydice has just updated the second volume of its European Glossary on Education first published in 2000. This new edition...

The aim of this study is to examine reforms in the higher education sector in the fifteen European Union Member States and the three EFTA/EEA countries between 1980 and 1998 and to identify the main trends together with the convergences and divergences between the different countries. This study...

There is an ever-increasing number of works on the education systems in Europe, often presenting a snapshot of the organisation of the systems in general or illuminating one particular aspect of their operation. It is less common to find information analysing the development of these systems...

TESE is a multilingual documentary language intended to make it easier to record and search for information. This thesaurus, which is concerned with the focus of action of the Eurydice Network, namely education policies and systems in Europe, takes account of the most recent developments in the...