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This volume contains papers emerging from a collaborative project to understand the intentions and the effects of European Union (EU) education and training policy. The project was undertaken by a network known as PRESTiGE – Problems of Educational Standardisation and Transition in a Global Environment. The network involves teams at six European universities. This volume represents the work of the Oxford section of PRESTiGE that has studied the interpretation, transmission and implementation of EU education and training policy in four Member States – France, Germany, Sweden, and the UK. The papers are: The PRESTiGE Network: contexts for research in EU education and training policies / Hubert Ertl and David Phillips; The European Union and education and training: an overview of policies and initiatives / Hubert Ertl; Educating Europe: an analysis of EU educational policies / Antonio Novoa and William deJong-Lambert; Interpreting EU education and training policy: thoughts from the English perspective / David Phillips; Tensions between the European and the Nordic dimension in education, with particular reference to Sweden / Bettina Dahl; A comparative study of the European dimension in education in England, Scotland, and Wales / Anastasia Economou; The European dimension and the National Curriculum for England / Nicola Savvides; European policies and transition processes: the influence of EU training programmes in Eastern Germany / Hubert Ertl; The impact of EU education and training policies in Sweden / Bettina Dahl; EU programmes in education and training: development and implementation in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom; Standardisation and differentiation in the levels of diplomas in higher education systems in Europe / Jake Murdoch; Higher education student mobility and the interpretation of European Union educational policies in France / Paula Branco da Cunha; Standardisation and expansion in EU education and training policy: prospects and problems / David Phillips and Hubert Ertl; Chronology of education and training policy within the European Union / Wenke Siedersleben and Bettina Dahl.