education-specific HLEs, weighted by the educational population structure. As expected, we find large educational inequalities … education is not only paramount for assessing health inequalities across European countries, but also the population composition …

This Special Issue considers education as a social policy in its own right, from a life-course perspective and in … relation to other policy areas. It recognizes the complexity of education systems and their multi-stage architecture. The … volume broadens our understanding of the role of "education as social policy" by addressing four different aspects: the …