A20 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: GeneralReturn

Globalisation, organisational and technological changes, demographic developments and migration flows challenge education institutions to equip learners with a wide range of key competences and skills. In this context, education and training policies can have a positive impact on sustainable development, competitiveness, social cohesion and employment. The main topics of this paper are efficiency, quality and equality in European education and training systems. This paper aims to analyse the concepts of efficiency, quality and equality of education and training and to offer an overview of the political cooperation through work programs (the Education and Training work programme - ET 2010, the Strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training - ET 2020) at the European level. It also outlines the two main goals of education policy - both goals of efficient allocation and goals of equitable distribution.