Advice group suggests benefits of bigger EU role in higher education

Experts say more prominent role for bloc could help higher education weather geopolitical instability

Higher education in the EU would benefit from the bloc’s political institutions wresting greater power over it from the member states, according to an expert advisory group.

Currently, the EU has only a “supporting” competence on education, which means it cannot force laws on the member states. But there have been growing calls to change that, including from the European Parliament, by making education a “shared competence”.