One step forward...

Article Abstract:

The European Commission has introduced a number of initiatives which have supported higher education within Europe, such as ensuring exchange programmes benefitted all those who participated. It also encouraged the involvement of non European Union (EU) countries in the Erasmus project. Erasmus was introduced in the 1980s. Higher educational issues had been avoided in order to comply with the wishes of France before the 1980s. The plan to establish a European Higher Education Area has been made without reference to the EU despite its past successful involvement in education.

Planning, European Union, Education, Higher

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Class apartheid

Article Abstract:

Britain's private schools, which educate just 9% of children, dominate the entry to its top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, and their students consequently predominate in most professions and institutions. The medical profession has 75% of its practitioners coming from professional families, while most army officers are from private schools. The new Labour government has pledged to make education a priority, but the dual education system is set to remain for the foreseeable future.

United Kingdom, Social classes, Social class, Private schools

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Cash calls tune for admissions

Article Abstract:

Higher education in Europe is more accessible to the better off. Women are increasingly represented, but subjects are often gender-specific. Where women predominate in medicine, this tends to pay poorly as a career. Ethnic minorities are often underrepresented, though not all countries gather data on this issue. Gather information could be problematic in areas of ethnic conflict such as former Yugoslavia. Books shortages are common in eastern Europe, and staff in Russia are not always paid.

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