Since the ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty, the Community is charged with supporting and complementing "the activities of the Member States in the combating of social exclusion." One area that features prominently in the Social Inclusion Strategy, which functions by means of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), is that of education, with a view to fighting exclusion within this policy field. As such, Member States are to learn from each other best practices whereby European governments, and the EU level, "have recently agreed on a joint approach to eradicating poverty and social exclusion, based on each country pursuing common objectives and learning from each other's successes." Education policy therefore is an element of this learning process. Leibfried and Pierson argue however that Member States are increasingly being situated in a complex, multi-tiered web of social policy. This paper examines this "web of social policy" in the form of the EU's social inclusion process: the Social Inclusion Strategy through the OMC. This paper observes the education policy within this Strategy and demonstrates how this method works, in addition to examining the true extent to which Member States are learning from each other within this particular field and ultimately the changes that have been brought about to education policy at various national levels because of the Social Inclusion Strategy.