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Whereas in 2000 the EU had heralded the knowledge‐based society with as its motto ‘with more and better jobs and stronger social cohesion’, the past decade has led to greater inequality and (at best) a status‐quo in poverty. EU2020 seems to acknowledge this failure and aims to reconnect social inclusion with the knowledge‐based strategy. This article discusses the education‐inequality nexus and shows what strategic and institutional measures need to be implemented for a ‘smarter’ social inclusion policy: a better balance between knowledge‐intensive and knowledge‐extensive policies, an extension of EU anti‐discrimination law in the field of education, integration of the OMC in education and training with the social OMC (including the social re‐orientation of the structural funds), and peer learning focused on structural reform of E&T systems.
Idès Nicaise (Mon,) studied this question.