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Activities of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2011/2088(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on tackling early school leaving
2016/11/22
Committee: EMPL
Dossiers: 2011/2088(INI)
Documents: PDF(141 KB) DOC(106 KB)

Amendments (7)

Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers it essential that teachers benefit from a high standard of training throughout their careers so as to enable them to reorient their practice and hence gear it to the new requirements;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that, as many studies show, educational establishments which have greater problems as regards coexistence and integration among pupils also have higher drop-out rates; calls on the Member States, therefore, to bring more searching attention to bear on their national plans to foster integration and coexistence;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that ineffective policies on work-life balance increase the instances of early school leaving and academic failure in general; calls on the Member States to intensify their efforts to improve their work-life balance policies and to make preschool education widely available, as this would bring benefits in terms of school careers and reduce drop- out rates within the EU;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Points out that the early school leaving rate is particularly high in rural regions and in areas economically dominated by sectors requiring a high proportion of seasonal work; calls on the Commission to increase the specific Structural Fund assistance, especially under the European Social Fund, allocated to those areas so as to help combat this phenomenon;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Bearing in mind that instances of short-lived and insecure employment are higher among persons with little education, calls on the Commission to ensure that efforts to enable early school leavers to return to the labour market invariably go hand in hand with additional training programmes to improve their future employment prospects;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that a well-thought-out public education policy remains the best way overall to promote skills development, productivity, and employability; warns that the possible public spending cuts in the education sector on account of the economic crisis and the budgetary austerity policies being implemented in Member States will have adverse effects to the extent that they will further increase the numbers of early school leavers in the EU;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers that, to combat early school leaving, education policies must be linked to policies aimed at promoting economic recovery and hence at creating permanent jobs and averting any dropping-out of education, short-lived and insecure employment, and acceleration of the brain drain;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL