Modernising school and higher education
The opinion objective is:
- to welcome the Commission proposals to modernise education and to offer support in the framework of the process of reinforcing the compatibility, interoperability and development of the various European systems of school and higher education and training;
- to welcome the proposal for a Council Recommendation as a step forward for European cooperation, considering that the availability of comparable information on graduate (un)employment across the EU is crucial in order to be able to address, inter alia, the brain drain within and across European regions;
- to promote new learning approaches, through various forms of IT-based learning, and ask to also include outreach activities for disadvantaged groups;
to place the CoR as a partner in the process of drawing up policy for the development and modernisation of school and higher education and, during
the consultative process, to make as much use as possible of the expertise of local and regional authorities.
In relation to the “Council Recommendation on tracking graduates”, the focus on the inclusion of regional and local authorities besides mention of the outermost regions was reflected to a certain degree in the final text adopted by the Council. Recital (3) in the Preamble takes into consideration the specificities of “particular regions”, while Recital (7) reffers to “differences in trends or outcomes across countries and regions”. Moreover, Paragraph 6 includes among the objectives “improving skills matching to support competitiveness and innovation at local, regional and national level, and to resolve skills shortages”.
The Commission also welcomes the inclusion of such references to the local and regional levels and will keep them in mind during the implementation of the Recommendation.
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