The Covid-19 pandemic has turned our everyday life and routines upside down. School closures, remote working, physical distancing amongst many. The closure of education institutions has meant that teachers and trainers have now had to move their classes online. But crossing this line is no easy task. It requires learning new skills and adopting a […]
Read MoreHow the pandemic has changed forever the way we teach
This year’s global pandemic exposed as never before the urgent need to revolutionise teacher training as skills centres and vocational education and training schools were closed around the world, forcing a sudden switch to online learning. Countries that had already started investing heavily online and blended education (where digitally-based distance learning is combined with practical […]
Read MoreInnovating in the Practical Teaching of Health Sciences: Gamification and Escape Room
Several subjects of the Nursing and Physiotherapy degree of the University of Almeria, through a teaching innovation project, use Escape Rooms as an evaluation tool. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” What is teaching innovation? Teaching innovation at all levels of education is not really new, […]
Read MoreMusIntegrACTION: transmitting Europe’s cultural heritage through music
MusIntegrACTION is an Erasmus+ project focused on musical educational excellence. It is based on a strategic partnership coordinated by the Conservatory of Music of Murcia and and co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, which was selected in July 2018 by the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE). This project brings together the […]
Read MoreArtistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
A Madonna and Child painting with a history almost as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa’s smile has been identified as an authentic Raphael canvas by Czech company InsightART, which used a robotic X-ray scanner to investigate the artwork. The 500-year-old painting had long been attributed to Raphael, a contemporary of Leonardo Di Vinci and Michelangelo, but doubts […]
Read MoreMeet the 2020 Nobel Prize Laureates
Meet the 2021 Nobel Prize Laureates We look back at the Nobel Prize winners in 2020. In this 2020 edition, we have four Europeans among the laureates: the British Roger Penrose and the German Reinhard Genzel in Physics; the French Emmanuelle Charpentier in Chemistry; and the British Michael Houghton in Medicine. The European presence among the […]
Read MoreEuropean Education Area for the digital age
The Commission adopted two initiatives that will strengthen the contribution of education and training to the EU’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis, and help build a green and digital Europe. Setting out a vision of the European Education Area to be achieved by 2025, the Commission proposes new initiatives, more investment and stronger cooperation of Member […]
Read MoreEuropean Day of Languages 2020
September 26 is the European Day of Languages and we want you to celebrate it with us. The European Union, through the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), declares the importance for European students to learn two foreign languages in addition to their mother tongue during their education. If you want to learn […]
Read More14 pupils per teacher in EU primary education schools
During the year 2018, there was an average of 14 students per teacher in Primary Education in EU countries. In 2018, at primary education level, there were 24.5 million pupils and 1.8 million teachers in the EU Member States. Generally speaking, pupils enter primary school programmes (classified as ISCED level 1) between the ages of 5 and 7. These programmes […]
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