Education and Training Monitor 2015: Country analysis

Abstract

Volume 2 of the Education and Training Monitor 2015 includes twenty-eight individual country reports. It does not aim to provide a description of the national education and training systems, which can already be found in other existing sources. It rather builds on the most up-to-date quantitative and qualitative evidence to present and assess the main recent and ongoing policy measures in each EU Member State, with a focus on developments since mid-2014. The structure of the country reports is as follows. Section 1 presents a statistical overview of the main education and training indicators. Section 2 briefly identifies the main strengths and challenges of the country's education and training system. Section 3 looks at expenditure on education. Section 4 focuses on early school leaving, early childhood education and care, and basic skills as important areas related to tackling inequalities. Section 5 deals with policies to modernise school education, covering, inter alia, the teaching profession, digital and language skills. Section 6 discusses measures to modernise higher education. Finally, section 7 covers vocational education and training, as well as adult learning.