Activities of Arne GERICKE related to 2017/2224(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Modernisation of education in the EU (debate) DE
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on modernisation of education in the European Union
Amendments (7)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. stresses the need to maintain schools and training facilities locally in all regions of the EU as an essential foundation for good education and equality of opportunity for girls;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of early childhood education as opposed to simply keeping children in day-care centres and urges the relevant policy levels in the Member States to take due account of this by developing age-specific curricula suitable for children;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of age- relevant, child-friendly education and opposes any kind of undue, premature sexualisation in children’s day care centres, kindergartens or primary schools;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need to maintain schools and educational facilities locally in all regions of the EU as an essential foundation for good education and equality of opportunity in the European harmonisation of living and working conditions;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the launch of a special 'Wifi4EUSchool' funding programme with the aim of providing 100 000 secondary schools in the EU with their own free educational hotspot in the Wifi4EU network;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on Member States and regions to promote digital education in all types of school in a targeted manner and to ensure the establishment and operation of ‘digital classrooms’ in accordance with uniform EU minimum standards for IT equipment in schools, and to that end for the EU also to provide appropriate networks and independent software;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the need for educational cooperation and the cross-border exchange of expertise at the highest political level, and calls therefore for the creation of a transparent ‘European Conference of Ministers of Education’ to discuss consensus positions on fundamental education policy issues;