With the number of children born and raised in different countries increasing in schools across Europe, the integration of migrants is high on the EU’s political agenda, while education plays a key role in bridging the gap and promoting the integration of migrant students in schools.
According to the European Commission’s “Education and Training Monitor 2017”, the common problems at the level of all participating EU countries are the lack and insufficient training of teachers, especially in initial education and in-service training for the integration of migrant students in the classroom; the weak commitment to intercultural education; the growing performance gap between foreign-born and native-born students; a large proportion of refugees are young and low-skilled, starting in initial school education; the contradiction between intercultural ideas and national and mono-cultural thinking, as well as cultural prejudices present in societies and schools.
