Are teachers in Europe well paid? What prospects for career development do they have? Have teachers gained or lost purchasing power in recent years? What are the minimum salaries for school heads? How does the size of their school impact their pay?
The annual Eurydice update on Teachers' and school heads' salaries and allowances in Europe has just been released in occasion of the World Teachers’ Day. Teachers’ remuneration and career prospects are indeed an intrinsic part of policies aiming to attract the best-qualified graduates to the profession and retain the best teachers.
Our publication shows the composition and differences in teachers’ and school heads’ earnings among the Eurydice countries. The comparative analysis is completed with national data sheets including detailed information on the salaries, allowances, and other additional payments that teachers and school heads receive. The national data sheets are published as open data. Data related to teachers' and school heads' salaries and allowances in Europe have been collected jointly by the Eurydice and the OECD/NESLI networks.
Education
Europe displays a variety of approaches to education that sometimes translates into multi-layered and complex systems.
What are the different models of organisation in primary and secondary education and how long does each education level last? How diverse are the programmes offered at tertiary level? Find the answers to these questions in the Eurydice's latest publication “The structure of the European education systems”.
In this report, updated national diagrams will help you navigate the situation across Europe through schematic information on how countries across Europe structure their education systems. This publication depicts the structure of education and training systems from early childhood education and care to tertiary level for the 2023/2024 school/academic year. The information covers the 39 European educational systems of the 37 countries participating in the Erasmus+ programme.
Today the Eurydice Network also publishes the updated fact sheet “Compulsory education in Europe”, which focuses on the duration of compulsory education/training in Europe. It highlights the starting and leaving ages and distinguishes the notions of full-time and part-time compulsory education/training.
A new school year has started in Europe and Eurydice comes to you with our regular update on school calendars.
How is the school year organised across Europe? Despite some differences, countries show many similarities regarding the structure of their school calendars. In 11 education systems, school starts on 1 September. However, the duration of summer holidays varies a lot: less than 7 weeks in the Netherlands, some Swiss cantons and Liechtenstein. They last 12 weeks or more for both primary and secondary students in Greece, Latvia, Malta and some regions in Italy.
This report provides information on the start of the school year and its length, as well as the timing and length of school holidays. It covers both primary and general secondary education. The information is available for 37 countries participating in the EU's Erasmus+ programme (27 Member States, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Türkiye).
This year for the first time, Eurydice is releasing the calendar in open data-format, providing all dates for school calendars at national level and, if applicable, by region or zone. You can download from our website the excel sheets that show how the school year is organised among the Network’s countries.