Revising Education Policies: Contemporary Complex Challenges

During last three decades, most countries worldwide and in Europe as well, have been supporting higher education trends towards strengthening skills acquisition in complex spheres of modern challenges, such as digitalisation, circular economy, climate mitigation and sustainable development, to name a few. In particular, the global sustainability goals (UN SDGs adopted in 2015) included a main orientation guideline SDG4 for quality education. Presently numerous higher education and training reforms have been aimed at developing skills required to make effective national progress towards implementing such new socio-economic priorities as sustainability, improving energy and transport efficiency, protecting human and marine environment, ensuring food quality and security, etc. Strong interdependencies among social, economic, political and environmental issues provide for the need of inclusion of adequate education facilities in greatly transformed education policies striving for optimal outcomes and positive effects in development. Therefore, European and other countries in the world are proceeding with comprehensive reforms and revision in educational processes aimed at new patterns in development subject to greener, inclusive and digital growth. The success of modern growth, in great extent, depends on adequate skills, qualifications and revolutionary changes in education policies.