46 Amendments of Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ related to 2013/2041(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)
Citation 17 b (new)
- having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 12 April 2013 (CdR 2392/2012 fin),
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
- having regard to the Council Recommendation of 5 September 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning (COM (2012) 485 final)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Education and Training Strategic Framework 2020 (ET2020) includes benchmarks on at least 95% of children between the age of four and the age for starting compulsory primary education participating in early childhood education; on the share of 15-years olds with insufficient abilities in reading, mathematics and science being less than 15%; on an average of at least 15 % of adults (age group 25-64) participating in lifelong learning;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the persisting economic crisis and austerity measures aimed at fiscal consolidation in several Member States challenge the lives of EU citizens in terms of unemployment, social exclusion and poverty; whereas the impact of the crisis, particularly on young people, is leading in extreme cases to malnutrition or mental health problems;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas in its Annual Growth Survey 2013, the Commission calls for promoting growth and competitiveness and tackling unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis by a sound investment in education and training;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas school bullying undermines young people's well-being, and leads to under-achievement and early-school leaving;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas it is necessary to aspire towards quality education and individual development and to examine closely future trends in labour market needs in order to adapt and modernise curriculaeducational and training curricula, lifelong learning strategies and to offer the right skills for the right jobs;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the stimulation of economic growth, productivity and comprehensiveness at national level proved to have an immense impact on increase and creation of the number of jobs, their quality and a better integration of young people into the labour market;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission Communication, in particular its strong focus on combating youth unemployment through investing in skills, calling for modernising higher education systems as well as promoting world-class vocational education and training (VET), flexible learning pathways and, work-based learning, and addressing the shortages of well-qualified teachers and trainersinvolvement of social partners in their design; furthermore welcomes addressing the shortages of well-qualified teachers and trainers through more effective teacher recruitment, retention and professional support;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Considers the role of education as much broader than just fulfilling the economic targets of European and national strategies. In this view, reaffirms the primary mission of education to prepare individuals for life as well as for being active citizens in increasingly complex societies;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a holistic approach to education and training, andrecognition of its broader mission in regard to personal growth and development; highlights the important role of non-formal and informal learning as part of an overall lifelong learning strategy aiming at a socially inclusive knowledge society with strong individuals and active citizens;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to prioritise public expenditures in education, training, research and innovation, and recalls that any budget cut in these fields will have a strong negative impact on the economic recovery of the Union and on achieving Europe 2020 objectives; strongly supports monitoring of national situations and launching of a debate at Union level with relevant stakeholders on investment efficiency and benefits in education and training;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Urges Member States to adopt legislation prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion or belief and age in the area of education, and to work in the Council to promptly adopt the horizontal anti-discrimination directive which is key to guarantee genuine equality and combat bias and discrimination, including at school;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls on Member States to pursue a closer link between the key strategic policy challenges identified throughout the European Semester and Open Methods of Cooperation (OMC) activities aimed at support member states to ensure high quality and accessible education and training also in times of fiscal constraints;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on Member States to promote anti-bullying policies to reduce early school-leaving and ensure genuine access to education for all;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a recognition of youth and civil society organisations in the design and implementation of lifelong learning strategies; also highlights their role as complementary educational providers for non-formal and informal learning and volunteering, helping young people to attain both transversal skills and individual personal competences, such as critical thinkeative and critical thinking, sense of initiative, information processing and problem solving, team work and communication, and self-confidence and leadership;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for learners and their organisations to be involved in decision- making processes concerning education, and that learning should be based on a structured dialogue with learners in the tailoring of curricula and methods fostering a lifelong learning approach;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to promote the attractiveness of VET, and calls for a stronger focus on transversal and basicand improve the labour market relevance of VET, ensure its quality, and calls for a stronger focus on acquisition of basic skills from an early age but also among adults and transversal skills, in particular on creativity, entrepreneurial and ICT skills that help young people to enter the labour market and to createenhance their employability as well as develop opportunities to set up their own businesses;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to promote the attractiveness of VET, and calls for a stronger focus on transversal and basic skills, in particular on entrepreneurial and ICT skills that help young people to enter the labour market and to create their own businesses; stresses the need for Member States to provide a safety net for failed start-up and to eliminate red tape;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. underlines that students' access to entrepreneurship education varies and is often determined at institution level; thus calls on Member States and local and regional authorities, working with the education institutions, to include elements of entrepreneurship education in the curriculum content in basic education, vocational training and higher education;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Acknowledges the importance of developing and implementing entrepreneurship education systems across Europe; considers that special focus should be placed on overcoming the disparities and substantial differences in their development, as shown by the 2008 survey on entrepreneurship in higher education and confirmed in the 2011 Budapest high level symposium;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the need to focusenhance the attractiveness and value onf STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects in education and areas, where the job shortages are predicted in future (for example, green economy, health and education); however, also calls for the right balance between the acquirement of theoretical knowledge and practical skills during studies;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the need to focus on the link between education, young people's expectations and labour market needs to ensure them easier and quality transition from education into the labour market aimed also at ensuring their autonomy;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the importance of supporting young people, especially those not in education, employment or training (NEETs), by promoting quality traineeships and apprenticeships, second- chance educational programmes, well- established dual learning and work- based learning as well as specific measures to foster access to higher education ; considers these as valuable steps in the transition from education to professional life as well as in lowering rates of youth unemployment;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on Member states to encourage employers to offer more quality apprenticeship placements, to develop clear quality criteria aimed at preventing abuses and to ease the administrative procedures for enterprises offering work or training opportunity for young people in order to improve their career pathways;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Reminds the Member States on the role of the EU programmes in promoting education, mobility, language skills, active citizenship, European values, cultural awareness and other valuable skills which all contribute to better employability and strengthening their intercultural understanding; stresses the need of their further support in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a period 2014–2020, focusing on learning mobility, cooperation and policy reform;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Welcomes the renewed focus on achieving the automatic recognition of comparable academic degrees and its objective of placing all the students on an equal footing, irrespective of their qualification's place of origin and in this view calls on member states to increase their efforts inn this regard;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Member States to invest in early labour marke full use of the European Youth Guaranteet activation mechanisms for young people, and to implement the European Youth Guarantee and to work with regions in ensuring that the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) will be truly complementary and additional to existing regional and national actions to combat youth unemployment, and recalls that these types of temporary employment should act as stepping stones towards permanent work;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Acknowledges that poor language skills constitute a major obstacle to free movement of workers and to the international competitiveness of enterprises in the Union, particularly in areas where European citizens live close to the border of a neighbouring country with a different language; recalls that language learning is deemed to be much more effective at an early age;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Emphasises Member States to activate labour market policies, promote employment opportunities, establish better guidance and tailored career service centres for young people which would enable them to become independent, live an autonomous life and secure a professional development;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Recalls that it is at the sub-national level that the most accurate and timely information on regional labour markets can be sourced and where local and regional authorities can play a significant role in identifying skills mismatch providing appropriate re-training and vocational training programmes and incentivising investment in response to local demand;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls for enhancing social and civil dialogue on education and training both on national and Union level and for strengthening the role of social partners in policy making;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the Communication does not specify any concrete implementation measures for cooperation between the educational sector and different social and business partners; however, welcomes the knowledge alliances and sector skills alliances included in the Commission proposal on the new multiannual programme in the field of education, training, youth, and sport and considers them as innovative and sustainable ways to increase human capital;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Highlights the shared responsibility of different actors in the field of life long learning such as educational institutions, public authorities, enterprises as well as individuals responsible for their own lives;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to carefully reflect on the concept of cost sharing as a way of funding education; warns that any cost sharing mechanism cannot be pursued at the expenses of the individuals; equity and universal access must be placed in the front row of any reform of the education and training systems;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for more cooperation between educational institutions and providers, the business sector, social partners, and regional authorities in order to exchange best practices and to promote partnerships as a means ofcivil organisations and local, regional and national authorities and employment services in order to exchange best practices and to promote partnerships as the effective means of addressing vacancies and sustainable integration of people in employment transition from education to work;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Considers it vital to recognise the importance of combining public and private investment in education and training; underlines at the same time the need to safeguard against possible undesirable side-effects such as hindering access of socio-economically disadvantaged groups to education and training.
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Notes the importance of recognizing education as a human right, that everyone must have an access to, aiming at the personal and societal development and at acquiring skills for life;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls the importance of high-quality teacher education that needs to be complemented with mobility and career- long professional training of educational staff on innovative teaching methods and contents, due in particular to the rapid changes in ICT and digital media; highlights the important role of other educators and their good cooperation (for example, youth workers, adult educators and parents);
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Considers an individual approach in form of coaching, tutoring and mentoring as a means of transmitting knowledge and expertise to mentees, identification the personal strengths as well as required competences in the specific profession;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Recalls the importance of high- quality teacher education that needs to be complemented with career-long professional training, due in particular to the rapid changes in ICT and digital media, as well as the specificities of entrepreneurship education;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the need to mainstream gender equality, to eliminate discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in education, and calls for policies to attract vulnerable and disadvantaged groups into learning; in this context, encourages the Member States to introduce specific measures in the form of financial support to people from lower socio-economic backgrounds;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Considers the need to widen access to learning as a key priority for the Union, with a clear focus on those who do not have a sufficient level of basic skills; encourages the Member States to introduce specific measures in the form of financial support to people from lower socio-economic backgrounds to ensure for everybody the possibility to reach the highest level of education and also to ensure that learners´ needs and welfare are met;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Strengthens the need to focus on low- skilled adults and on role played by adult education and training in outreaching these groups as well as on intergenerational learning, and recalls the opportunities that digital learning and open educational resources (OER) can bring, as regards access to education and training;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Strongly supports the creation of a European area of skills and qualifications in order to achieve transparency and recognition of qualifications acquired in VET or higher education; where appropriate, proposes to extend the recognition also to qualifications gained outside of the formal education and training system, that can be seen as a tool for empowerment, democratic participation, social inclusion and as a pathway to involve or bring people back into the labour market;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Calls on the Member States to develop a comparative framework concerning university degrees and providing a reference point on the education and skills obtained under educational systems;