Universities want EU spending target for higher education

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Just as the EU has a target to spend 3 per cent of its GDP on R&D, it should also have a target to spend a certain share of its GDP on higher education, according to a group of universities.

“We urge the EU to adopt an enforceable percentage of GDP target for funding for higher education in line with the best-performing regions in the world”, the Cesaer group of science and technology universities said in a position paper it published on 20 April.