Higher education

Economy

How does unemployment vary among university graduates across Europe?

Unemployment rates are higher among the general population than among university graduates across Europe—except in Turkey. Euronews Business looks at the data.

27/07/2025

Europe News

Danish PM calls for full-face veil ban in educational institutions

Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday she was seeking to extend the 2018 niqab ban to educational institutions and remove prayer rooms, citing concerns about social control and oppression.

05/06/2025

Europe in Motion

Which European countries are achieving the highest education levels?

Eurostat’s latest figures reveal that Europeans are better educated than ever with women outperforming men in almost every country across the 27-member bloc.

27/05/2025

Health news

Climate change to enter the curricula at European medical schools

The network aims to train 10,000 medical students in the next three years.

14/10/2024

Work

Oxford named best university in 2025. How did the rest of Europe do?

The 2025 Times Higher Education World University Rankings are out, with the US and UK dominating the top spots, and European universities seeing some decline.

13/10/2024

Work

These European universities were ranked as best in the world in 2024

European and US universities dominated the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), with Harvard University securing the top spot once again.

28/08/2024

Radio Schuman

Should the EU ban its officials from using Telegram?

What threats might Telegram pose, particularly when used by EU officials?

28/08/2024

Work

Which country is home to the most educated Europeans?

The proportion of the population with a higher education degree is higher in Nordic and Baltic countries, with women overall being the most educated.

17/08/2024

Work

The world’s best universities for 2025: Europe claims 2 of the top 3

The QS World University Rankings are out, with MIT at the top of the list for the 13th consecutive year, followed by Imperial College London and Oxford.

27/06/2024

The Big Question

Is it really worth studying business at university?

“You should feel legitimate to have the ambition to become CEO, ministers, leaders of tomorrow.”

13/05/2024

Economy

How financially literate are Europeans? Not very - but who knows most?

EU citizens are not doing well when it comes to financial literacy. Nearly half lack an understanding of basic financial concepts, including inflation.

24/04/2024

Europe News

Brussels proposes European Degree but struggles to explain why

Graduates could soon be awarded a pan-European degree from a group of universities, as part of new plans unveiled by the European Commission.

27/03/2024

Sci-Tech

Euroviews. Are we doing enough for women of colour in science?

Building spaces for African women in science requires resources. As well as funding, we need buy-in from their male peers to help construct safe spaces for them to flourish, Pauline Gerrard writes.

22/03/2024

Culture news

France may shut some public art schools, culture minister says

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said certain public art schools are “in a crisis situation” and may need to be shut down. “They no longer have the means to offer a quality environment.”

22/03/2024

Greece

Greece approves ending state monopoly on university education

Greek lawmakers approved sweeping university education reforms that would break the state monopoly on university education, despite student protests.

09/03/2024

Economy

Lockdown may have set productivity back 40 years, says OECD

The impact of lockdowns on children's education during the Covid-19 pandemic may have set back the chances of increasing global economic growth by up to 40 years, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

08/02/2024

World News

European education slips downward, according to PISA report by OECD

Whilst many Asian countries have shown remarkable improvement in reading and mathematics many European countries have fallen behind in educational standards.

05/12/2023

France

Mourners in Arras pays tribute to teacher killed by former student

The murder of Dominique Bernard on 13 October, almost three years to the day after the murder of history and geography teacher Samuel Paty in the Paris region, sent shockwaves through the teaching profession in particular.

19/10/2023

Work

Oxford tops the World University 2024 list. Where else made the grade?

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024 are out and it's China making the biggest impression rather than the West.

15/10/2023

Green News

UK universities accepted millions in funding from fossil fuel giants

Several universities accepted funding from giants like Shell and ExxonMobil in the past year, despite green pledges, DeSmog found.

06/10/2023