EU Commission unveils education and skills package

The package's explicit link between classroom AI adoption and basic-skills decline signals that Brussels now treats digital tools in education as a governance question, not just a procurement one. That framing matters for edtech vendors, teacher-training providers and member states that will have to translate bloc-level measures into national curricula. The harder question is delivery: teacher shortages are a labour-market problem that guidance documents alone rarely solve, and whether the AI-in-teaching component arrives with safeguards or as a mandate is worth watching as national implementation plans take shape.