3 Amendments of Geoffroy DIDIER related to 2017/2224(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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2. Notes that despite strong demand in the labour market for high-level skills, and the response of the education system in the form of the massive development of HEI (Higher Education Institutes), approximately 20 % of Europeans, including university graduates, lack basicvital skills such as reading, writing orand numeracy1; recalls, moreover, that a similar number of Europeans have a low level of basic skills and that 44 % lack basic digital skills2, which creates serious barriers to their participation in the technologically advanced labour market and everyday life; __________________ 1 http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/school /math_en
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue their efforts to enable the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning as a full driver of skills development – gained from free online courses such as MOOCs – which often broaden access to education for underprivileged groups and therefore increase their opportunities for a better job and life;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the Member States to internationalise education systems and expand student mobility programmes to better prepare students for the EU labour market, in which a lack of skills in foreign languages and cultures is the first barrier to mobility; with that in mind, calls on the Member States to include new academic priorities in this area in particular, in both the academic and vocational pathways;