Activities of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2011/2088(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on tackling early school leaving
Amendments (7)
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers it essential that teachers benefit from a high standard of training throughout their careers so as to enable them to reorient their practice and hence gear it to the new requirements;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that ineffective policies on work-life balance increase the instances of early school leaving and academic failure in general; calls on the Member States to intensify their efforts to improve their work-life balance policies and to make preschool education widely available, as this would bring benefits in terms of school careers and reduce drop- out rates within the EU;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Points out that the early school leaving rate is particularly high in rural regions and in areas economically dominated by sectors requiring a high proportion of seasonal work; calls on the Commission to increase the specific Structural Fund assistance, especially under the European Social Fund, allocated to those areas so as to help combat this phenomenon;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Bearing in mind that instances of short-lived and insecure employment are higher among persons with little education, calls on the Commission to ensure that efforts to enable early school leavers to return to the labour market invariably go hand in hand with additional training programmes to improve their future employment prospects;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers that, to combat early school leaving, education policies must be linked to policies aimed at promoting economic recovery and hence at creating permanent jobs and averting any dropping-out of education, short-lived and insecure employment, and acceleration of the brain drain;