Education and Public Policy in the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Sarah K. St. John, Mark Murphy

   Pages 1-19

3. Tracing the Roots: The Origins and Evolution of European Union Education Policy

   • Sarah K. St. John

   Pages 21-46

4. Where Migration Meets Education: Case Study of Policies Referring to the Mobility of the Highly Skilled

   • Sona Kalantaryan, Justyna Salamońska

   Pages 47-66

5. Health and Education Policy: Labour Markets, Qualifications, and the Struggle over Standards

   • Scott L. Greer, Ellen Kuhlmann

   Pages 67-88

6. Agriculture with a Social Twist: Vocational Education and Training in the Common Agricultural Policy

   • Carine Germond

   Pages 89-110

7. Breaking the Language Barriers: Free Movement and Language Learning in the European Community

   • Guido Reverdito, Sarah K. St. John

   Pages 111-147

8. EU Digital Media Policies and Education: The Challenge of a Digital Agenda for Europe

   • Cristina Costa, Mark Murphy

   Pages 149-164

9. Raising Long-Term Awareness: EU Environmental Policy and Education

   • Mirella Sarti, Sarah K. St. John

   Pages 165-181

10. Conclusion

    • Mark Murphy, Sarah K. St. John

    Pages 183-195

11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-200

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This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community’s policymaking since its creation. Policies are all too often placed in their individual silos, which can sometimes work against deeper understanding of policymaking and its reach across policy domains. This project avoids such compartmentalisation and instead crosses boundaries to explore education’s relationship with other policy areas, as well as its far-reaching role in the construction of a united Europe. It demonstrates education’s significance across the broad landscape of European integration by presenting a collection of case studies, which represent policy areas that have experienced the infiltration of education. These include: Migration, Health, Agriculture, Multilingualism, Media and Communications, and the environment.

• education
• public policy
• European Union
• policy domains
• policy agendas
• education policy
• spillover
• governance
• accountability
• regulation
• Erasmus
• EU health policy
• Common Agricultural Policy
• free movement
• Language Learning for European Citizenship
• cultural and political change
• syllabi
• EU institutions
• employability
• skills development
• european union politics

• School of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  Sarah K. St. John, Mark Murphy

Sarah K. St. John is a researcher at the University of Glasgow, UK, and works at the European University Institute.


Mark Murphy is Reader in Education and Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, UK, and Co-Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change.

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