Central Europe
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Private Tutoring: Rising in the Shadows
While tight school budgets and teacher union complaints make the newspaper headlines in many European countries, it may be less visible that each year families across the EU spend billions […]
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Drama Schools
Three days, maybe a week, possibly even longer – that’s how long Slovak teachers intend to strike for higher wages. Starting yesterday, most parents of school-age children in Slovakia have had […]
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Slovakia: Cut education spending to give more money to schools
While Slovakia’s state budget chapter on education for the next year may seem to be increasing, in fact it’s not.
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Czech educators visit inclusive schools in Leicester, U.K.
The Open Society Fund Prague organized a three-day study tour to the UK for 10 professionals from the Karlovy Vary region in western Czech Republic where the majority of Roma […]
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Arrested Development
VILNIUS | Edita Bagdoniene is a happily married mother of two, but sometimes she gets so frustrated taking care of her young sons day in and day out that she […]
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Erasing Ukraine’s Memories
From the beginning of its rule, the current government laid the foundation for the concept of its cultural policy by criticizing “Orange nationalism,” but that was clearly not enough to […]
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Hungary’s New Curriculum: Writing Wrongs?
BUDAPEST | It is not uncommon in Hungarian living rooms to find the walls lined with bookshelves from floor to ceiling. Nor is it odd to find on those shelves […]
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Lithuania’s Boy Smugglers Go Back to Class
PAGEGIAI, Lithuania | Just a couple of years ago, it was not unusual for groups of boys at the high school in Lumpenai, a few kilometers from the Lithuanian-Russian border, […]
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Bosnia: School management – parents: making information flow both ways
Parents are often reluctant to become involved in their children’s school. Some may feel that teachers will see their activity as “an attack”, others may doubt in their ability to […]
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Europe: Strengthening evidence-informed policy and practice in education
Working to increase the use of evidence in educational policy-making and practice across Europe is the European Commission funded: ‘Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe’ (EIPPEE) project.
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