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What qualifications will Europe need by 2020?. Challenges?. skills mismatches. - which skills? - how to provide the right skills for employability? - how to work adequately with business?. Europe 2020 growth strategy. ‘Rethinking Education’ November 2012.
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Challenges? skills mismatches - which skills? - how to provide the right skills for employability? - how to work adequately with business?
Europe 2020 growth strategy ‘Rethinking Education’ November 2012 European Area for Skills and Qualifications
5 targets for the EU 2020 Education- 40% of 30-34–year-olds third level education - early school leaving below 10% - underperformance below15% (e.g. nearly 20% of 15 year olds lack sufficient skills in reading) - reduce adults with a low level of education (73 million) - increase participation in lifelong learning (at present 8,9% only) Employment 75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employed R&D 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in R&D Climate change and energy sustainability20% (or even 30%, if the conditions are right) greenhouse gas emissions lower than 199020% of energy from renewables20% increase in energy efficiency Fighting poverty and social exclusionat least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion
What to do? • 1. revising all teaching professions • 2. strengthening transversal skills • entrepreneurial initiative, • digital skills • foreign languages • 3. improving performance of students at risk of early school leaving • increasing inclusiveness • low-skilled adults • 4. developing world-class vocational education and training • mobility • promoting work based learning • quality traineeships, • apprenticeships • dual learning models • 5. increase the efficiency of funding in education
There are financial constraints in the sector Evolution of teacher salaries compared with the previous year
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop (Henry Adams)