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New multiannual framework programmes Erasmus+ and Creative Europe http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/CULT/home.html, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bCOMPARL%2bPE-521.609%2b02%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN

Crisis knocking EU 2020 goals off track

http://euobserver.com/economic/121936

European Online Education and Training Monitor http://ec.europa.eu/education/documents/eatm/education-and-training-monitor-2013_en.pdf, http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-policy/progress_en.htm#countryreports, http://ec.europa.eu/education/documents/eatm/chapter0_en.pdf, http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1006_en.htm?locale=en

Fees for free? The many guises of higher education tuition fees in Europe http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/focus-on/fees_for_free_en.php

Eurydice’s new ‘National Student Fee and Support Systems’ publication tries to capture the actual amount of money that students must spend for first and second cycles of higher education  in each country regardless of what the fee is called there.