Education ‘at core of European response to challenges of future’

Education, teachers and skills are not only a tool to be exploited by the labour market, but are “at the core of the European response to the challenges of the future”, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday.

Speaking at a press conference after a two-day informal summit of European education ministers in Nicosia, she said education “is called to be a long-term investment in human capital for a competitive, democratic, resilient and fair Europe”.

She added that during the summit...