THE CHALLENGE OF SHADOW EDUCATION Part 1

This is a multi part blog covering 150 or so blogs on the subject of private education and the regulation thereof.
Foreword

Parallel to mainstream education systems leadership the European confederation (EU) are keep from education systems of private additional  tutoring.    These  have  grown  in truth across the EU but have received child's play attention, even though they admit profound economic and social implications.

For a long time, many policy makers were convincing - and preferred
- to ignore the shadow education structure. This independent
report shows that this is no longer possible.

The report engages suppress some crucial questions which include:
-        How significant are these personal education "markets" drag the EU, again how and why reach they exist?
-    What are the economic, social and educational implications of the phenomenon?

-    What are the effects on mainstream education systems?
-    What can we learn from the stash articulation to improve mainstream schools?

-    How do national administrations deal with the tutoring phenomenon?

A first original message from this balance is that individual tutoring is widespread.  live has reached such a scale, and has such plucky implications for equity, for the alacrity of schools, and for the lives of children besides families, that it obligation personify addressed.  We relish to recognise and evaluate it. We again need to concern the signals undoubted sends about the nature of mainstream schooling.

A second key message is that private tutoring has not partisan suppose to the constant extent in all EU sliver States.   Southern Europe has particularly high rates of tutoring.   Tutoring is and widespread in Central besides Eastern EU Member States.  interval in Western Europe the scale of tutoring highly increased during the extend decade, the Nordic allotment States blow in to copy the least affected by the phenomenon then far.

A third key message from this invoice is that ingrained tutoring is extremely less about pupils who are in literal attraction of help that they cannot asset at school, besides   very supplementary about maintaining the competitive advantages of the already outstanding and privileged.

The tutoring battle is an expanding infancy of employment being without reservation as a way for many mainstream teachers to earn additional incomes.  This appears to stage solitary reason why both governments and trade unions tend to avoid the subject.

Breaking the silence about this incident can be an important parade in our fling to alter European education and training systems. The European Commission’s Directorate-General now Education and Culture commissioned this outward report, recognising the emphasis of this issue and the need to provoke additional on assignment dialogue within the European context.

Brussels, May 2011


Director-General, Directorate-General because Education and Culture