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Eurydice at NFER is the national Eurydice Unit for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

As part of the European information network on education, we aim to provide reliable, comparative information on education in Europe to support and enhance the policy making process.

Eurydice at NFER serves policy makers at European, national and local government level and also makes relevant information freely available on this website to the wider education community. We are particularly keen to support activities under the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme.

We provide:

We also contribute information on the education systems and policies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to the full range of Eurydice Network products.


Eurydice at NFER News
A table detailing compulsory age of starting school in 34 European countries is available on this website.

NB. The Eurydice Network website has a new address - http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/Eurydice. Links to http://www.eurydice.org will still work, but addresses for internal pages have changed. We have updated links wherever possible, but if a link does not work, please either use the guided search on the Eurydice Network site or try replacing "www.eurydice.org" within the URL with "eacea.ec.europa.eu".

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