9 Amendments of Lara WOLTERS related to 2019/2212(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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1. Calls for a genuine revision of the EU’s and the Member States’ education, training and skills policies to deliver education and lifelong learning, addressing, in particular, the digital skills gap and the need for adaptation to a modern, low-carbon, sustainable economy and the realities of the digitalised economy, and of preparing for the future impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market; stresses that these policies should promote personal and societal development while respecting the goals of the energy transition towards the low- carbon economy and of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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2. Points out that socio-economic disadvantage is frequently a predictor of poor educational outcomes and vice versa; insists that a properly funded, quality education and lifelong learning system can help break this vicious circle and promote social inclusion and equal opportunities; recalls in this respect principles one, three four, and eleven of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals and recognises the contribution of education and culture to the wellbeing of individuals and societies; supports the plans to make the European Education Area a reality in the foreseeable future with the aim of allowing everyone access to a quality education; calls on the Commission to assist the Member States in reforming and modernising their education systems, including digital learning;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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3. Asserts that quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) has a positive impact on all children, boys and girls, and even more so on children belonging to less privileged socio-economic backgrounds and to those with special needs, thereby contributing to reducing social inequalities; stresses that ECEC has an impact on children’s development, learning and well- being in the short-term, and creates the building blocks for improving later long- term life outcomes; therefore calls on the Commission to establish a European Child Guarantee with adequate funding and well-designed support services;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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4. Believes that structural investingment into human capital and national education systems, with a particular focus on young people and people with fewer opportunities, is key to boosting knowledge-intensive, sustainable and inclusive growth, in a context of increasing skills shortages and mismatches in a rapidly changing world of work, particularly in the era of digitalisation; underlines the importance of entrepreneurship education in order to motivate young people to opt to set up in business and believes more needs to be done to attract girls into STEM; underlines also the important contribution vocational education can make towards achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
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5. Is of the opinion that the European Structural and Investment Funds can provide options for better access to information and the active inclusion of young people, especially those living in rural and remote areas or in areas with a shrinking population;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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6. Points out that in 2018, in the EU, 16.5 % of 20-34-year-olds – one in six young people – were neither in employment nor in education and training (NEETs)1, and that the share of early school leavers was 10.6 %2, and that young people with disadvantaged backgrounds remain at higher risk of being NEETs or in low-skilled, unstable and low-paid employment; recognises that these figures are as low as they were in the first quarter of 2008, and the lowest since this data began to be compiled in the first quarter of 2006; calls, nevertheless, on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts to reduce early school leaving and the percentage of NEETs, and to improve educational outcomes, taking into account regional and demographic disparities, as well as to implement comprehensive preventive strategies and to engage early school leavers in education and training; ___supports turning the existing Youth Guarantee into a permanent instrument provided the instrument is properly funded; ____________ 1 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products- eurostat-news/-/DDN-20190627-1 2 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/32 17494/10164469/KS-EI-19-001-EN- N.pdf/33ab6c0c-a0c6-5294-3948- b1fb9973d096
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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7. Urges the Member States to foster cooperation between education and businesses, with a view to fostering low- carbon local and regional economies as well as addressing skills mismatches, including by fostering technical and digital skills, as well as vocational training and dual studies, and to put in place effective and comprehensive methodologies for the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
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10. Considers that effective governance and adequate funding for all educational settings, modern quality educational resources and teaching, motivated and competent teachers and lifelong learning are crucial for achieving equity, diversity and excellence in education; stresses, in this context, the need to attract greater numbers of motivated candidates with sound academic or professional backgrounds and pedagogical skills into the teaching profession; stresses this can only be realised by increasing the attractiveness of the teaching profession and of a career in education via, inter alia, adequate salaries and support systems for teachers;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to shift their macroeconomic approach towards encouraging social investment in the public sector; calls on the Commission, in this respect, to use the flexibility clause of the Stability and Growth Pact to allow Member States to increase investment in cultural and youth policies, in education and training and in research, in particular by excluding such investments from the calculation of national budget expenditure.