If Europe wants to retain its competitive edge at the top of the global-value-added chain, the education system must be made more flexible, more effective and more easily accessible to a wider range of people. |
Immigration in Europe is still considered a problem rather than an opportunity, and nowhere is that more obvious than in education. |
In all those countries social background has much less of an impact on outcomes than it does have in a country like Germany. They are providing students with equitable opportunities. |
The time when Europe competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages has gone. Today, countries like China and India are starting to deliver high skills at low costs. |
They have clear objectives, well defined and clear to all stakeholders who are pursuing these objectives systematically. |
When demand for education began to outpace supply, students were not sent home. Instead, class size and schooling hours were extended....The incentives driving these reforms forward was a plethora of merit-based learning opportunities where progress depended on what children were able to do, not where they came from. |