This book unravels the 'new reality' of national educational reforms, exploring optimal strategic directions for education and training. Offering a particular emphasis on EU-wide political guidelines, it encompasses lifelong learning across all levels, and it showcases the pivotal role of modern skills in education for reducing poverty, promoting gender equality, and enhancing lifestyles. Discussing how reformed education is vital for a robust national response, the book emphasizes the social responsibility inherent in educational policy. It advocates for reforms to overhaul content, enhance teaching pedagogical skills, and impart socially valuable and responsible knowledge. It further identifies how strategic focus on education and training holds the potential to enrich innovation, competitiveness, employability, and productivity.

Designed to inform scholars, policymakers, and professionals influencing national educational reforms amid contemporary challenges. This book provides essential insights into the evolving educational landscape and its impact on societal progress.

Explores the challenges of contemporary national educational reforms Addresses socio-economic functions of modern skills education Highlights education's role in modern workforce transformation

Autorentext

Prof. Eteris, is a lawyer by profession; he is a practitioner senior adviser, social sciences' researcher and university professor. He has a Ph.D. in comparative politics from Moscow State University, Russia and post-doctoral in environmental policy from Danish Roskilde University Center. He has been most active in the European studies during last 30 years writing extensively on various aspects of European socio-economic integration.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Revising education policies: contemporary complex challenges.- Chapter 2. Global and European regulatory measures in education.- Chapter 3. European political economy at a cross-road: resolving twin transition through a reformed education and training.- Chapter 4. Sustainability in modern political economy and education.- Chapter 5. Towards European education union: strategy for universities.- Chapter 6. Science, research and innovation in educational reforms.- Chapter 7. Labor market and workforce in a reformed educational policy.- Conclusion.- Index.