European Commission presents its Education and Skills Package with four directions

The European Commission has presented its Education and Skills Package to raise achievement in basic skills, harness digital and AI tools for education, strengthen the teaching profession, and improve the agility, strategy and connectivity of vocational education and training (VET).

Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, presented on 05/11/2026 a package with four directions: attractiveness of the teaching profession and reversing the decline in basic skills through two Council Recommendations, a new strategy to modernise VET and a communication on a better and safer use of digital technologies for education.

The communication on digital technologies includes:

• modernisation of Teacher Academies from 2027 onwards, to better…