TreeLLLe (an Italian private think tank for public affairs) invited Simon Steen to give a presentation about ECNAIS on the TreeLLLE conference in Rome 25 June 2014 about How to make more space for pluralism in the Italian education system?

Simon Steen wrote together with a Dutch colleague on request of TreeLLLe (an Italian private think tank for public affairs) the article Public financing and private management of schools: case The Netherlands (2014)

The seminar will be organized in good cooperation with our ECNAIS colleagues in Austria and Switzerland. The working title for the theme of the seminar is: “How to avoid the unification of diversity?” “How independent schools organize themselves – and try to find their way as different and unique on one hand – and on the other hand try to… Read

The report Financing Schools in Europe: Mechanisms, Methods and Criteria in Public Funding has now been launched. This report provides a framework for understanding the structure of funding systems and funding flows in primary and general secondary education. It explains the financial flows through the various administrative levels involved with the help of diagrams and it analyses the criteria, and… Read

In this letter to Dr Andreas Schleicher, director of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, academics from around the world express deep concern about the impact of Pisa tests and call for a halt to the next round of testing. Read the full article on the Guardian’s website: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/06/oecd-pisa-tests-damaging-education-academics

Simon Steen, chairman of ECNAIS, has been interviewed by the Diario de Mallorca, during the ECNAIS conference in Mallorca, Spain. Read the full article here.

25 years of diversity and free parental school choice ensured by civil society ECNAIS is a non-political, non-confessional, international association for collaboration between national associations of independent schools in European countries. We use the term ‘independent’ in our statutes, but more common all over Europe is the term ‘private’ schools, meaning not governed or owned by the state. ECNAIS concerns… Read