French-speaking schools already considering changes to new school holiday calendar

After just two years operating under its new calendar, the community of French-speaking schools in Belgium is already discussing possible changes to the holiday schedule.

Belgium considers compulsory schooling from three years old

Belgium’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, has approved a draft resolution asking the federal government to lower the compulsory school age from five years to three. Only the far-right Vlaams Belaang (VB) and the Flemish centrist party CD&V voted against, while the ecologists Ecolo/Groen abstained. The Mouvement Réformateur (MR) party, which wrote the text, […]

Coca-Cola to remove vending machines from Belgian secondary schools

Coca-Cola has announced that it will stop distributing its products in Belgian and Luxembourg secondary schools by the end of the year.