Activities of Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU related to 2010/2234(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Cooperation in vocational education and training to support the Europe 2020 strategy (short presentation)
Amendments (23)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas youth and female unemployment, as a result of the recent economic and financial crisis, is one of the most pressing challenges in Europe and whereas one goal being pursued is to reduce the school drop-out rate below 10%, and another is to increase women’s participation into the labour market by 70% by 2020,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas demography isand longevity are such that working lives will, as a matter of course, be longer and more varied and whereas lifelong learning is, the new digital economy, the adaptation to new technologies and the implementation of the EU 2020 goals are the only way to secure a place on the labour market,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas vocational education and training tailored to learners‘’ individual needs is of decisive value and makes for better social integration, in particular of specific groups such as migrants, people with disabilities, or early school-leavers and vulnerable women,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Recognises the importance of modernising vocational education and training, given that human capital is crucial for Europe’s success;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises the importance of vocational education and training, initial and continuing vocational education and training and maintains that their success hinges on the participation and cooperation of all stakeholders, the designing, organisation and financing of strategies towards this direction;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to ensure that vocational education and training and life-long learning are geared more closely to the needs of the labour market; and allow for the entry and mobility within it;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the greater emphasis on a result-oriented learning approach and that fact that skills acquired informally or non- formally are to be recognised more widely;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member states to open routes for lower-ability students to return to general education either at secondary or tertiary level;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for greater balance in girls‘’ and boys’ career choices, taking into account the stereotypes that still exist and influence the choice of job orientations, causing a clear separation between male and female professions;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for all stakeholders to engage in formal dialogue with a view to ensuring that vocational education is of high quality and geared to the current needs of the labour market;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the aim of the Europe 2020 strategy whereby vocational education systems are to be oriented towards creativity, new technologies, innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking and self- employment is to be viewed as a career option;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to devise a lifelong learning checklmechanistm to encourage workers to systematically pursue lifelong learning on their own initiativ/vocational education and training on their own initiative, paying special attention to women, who need to reconcile family and working life and regularly review what skills they need to continue to operate successfully on the labour market, to upgrade their skills and provide job mobility;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that readily accessible, flexible, and individually tailored vocational training is important to people at different times of lifefor the most needed professions and to people at all ages and at different times of life with a view not only to promote lifelong learning, but also to contribute to the evolution of existing professions and the creation of new ones, based on actual society's needs;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to make greater use of online vocational training and lifelong learning programmes so as to enable families to achieve work-life balancreconcile family and working life;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Asks the Member States to create better training opportunities for vocational education and training for trainers and lay the foundations for a facilitative learning partnership with a view to securing the effectiveness of vocational education and training systems, as well as the efficient and successful pass-down of knowledge;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on Member states to establish and implement quality assurance systems at national level and develop a competence framework for teachers and trainers;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Maintains that vocational secondary and post-secondary education institutions should also become involved in the training sphere, a point which applies particularly to post-secondary institutCalls on Member states to actively involve private higher education institutions, as well as public institutions such as universities, in the upgrading and expansions offering courses to upgrade specialist skills vocational skill development, especially for MINT professions (mathematics, informatics, natural sciences, and technology); points out, however, that competition with private providers must not be distorted;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Asks the Member States, as far as vocational education and training policies are concerned, to allow especially fortake into consideration the individual needs of low-skilled workers, migrant learners, the unemployed, vulnerable women and people with disabilities;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to create pathways for young people with no educational qualifications or qualified at a low level so as to enable them to enter employment; calls, given the explosive nature of the problem, for a pilot projectcomprehensive strategy to combat youth and women unemployment and help Member States establish networks on the ground linking schools, industry, youth services, and young people;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the idea of making cross- border mobility an optional component of vocational education and training;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to take into accountput an emphasis on the acquisition of foreign language skills in vocational education and training;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls for the promotion of transnational cooperation, both among EU Member states and third countries, in order to establish programmes for the exchange of best practices in the field of vocational education and training;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States to finance a training voucher schemecomprehensive system of allocation of resources under the ESF, so as to enable people to make use of training offerings even when they have a low income;