7 Amendments of Erna HENNICOT-SCHOEPGES related to 2008/2329(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading (new) after paragraph 19 a
Subheading (new) after paragraph 19 a
The European educational system
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Notes that the first European School came into existence in Luxembourg in October 1953 on the initiative of a group of officials of the ECSC High Authority with the support of the Community institutions and the Luxembourg Government and that a protocol was signed in April 1957 making the Luxembourg School the first official European School;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Notes that the European Schools are official educational establishments set up jointly by the governments of the EU Member States and the European Community, that they have legal status as a public institution in each of these countries, that their main task is to provide multilingual and multicultural education to the children of staff of the European Communities at nursery, primary and secondary level and that there are currently 14 European Schools with almost 20 000 pupils;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)
Paragraph 19 d (new)
19d. Stresses that holders of the European Baccalaureate can enter higher education establishments and universities in a country of their choice in the EU and that, according to a survey by the European Parliament in October 2008 on the university and professional careers of alumni of the European Schools, the course of studies leading to the European Baccalaureate educates multilingual children in a multicultural environment, where importance is attached to the teaching of science, the arts and ‘European hours’;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 e (new)
Paragraph 19 e (new)
19e. Therefore calls on the Commission to envisage including the European Schools in the work of the Eurydice network;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 f (new)
Paragraph 19 f (new)
19f. Notes that, in order to ensure that the work of the European Schools continues, in view of the successive enlargements and the growing number of agencies and increased mobility of European officials, the European Parliament in its resolution of 17 December 2002 on the future financing of the European Schools1 and its resolution of 8 September 2005 on options for developing the European Schools system2, urged radical reform of the system with a few to better governance and openness, aiming in time to enable any accredited national school to award the European Baccalaureate according to the criteria laid down at the meeting of the Board of Governors of the European Schools of April 2005;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 g (new)
Paragraph 19 g (new)