EDUCATION Funding
Row over European Schools' fees plan
By Dave Keating - 16.05.2012 / 12:10 CET
Plan to raise fees for children of non-EU staff.
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Teething problems
The sensitivities that can surround the education of EU civil servants' children were exposed last month over plans to close school buildings in Brussels.
The Belgian government decided that a renovation was necessary in buildings used to house the nursery classes of the European School in Uccle, in order to remove asbestos.
But controversy soon erupted over which age groups would be moved temporarily to rue de Berkendael, next to the prison. That site has been used in recent years as the temporary home of a new school to be opened in Laeken in September.
It was decided that the least disruptive option would be to have new nursery-school children moved into the Berkendael site from September, once the older students have moved into the Laeken buildings. This will give parents the option to wait to start their children in the European School system until after the renovations are complete, in one or two years.
The school in Laeken has been planned for a long time, but the opening has been much delayed.
It was one of three schools approved after the ‘big bang' EU enlargement of 2004. A new school in Strasbourg is now fully operational, and a school in Luxembourg will open in September.
The College of Europe has been having a few teething problems with an attempt to extend its famed networking skills into the digital age.
The UK government has announced that it will no longer replace British teachers when they leave European Schools.
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