10 Amendments of Philippe BOULLAND related to 2011/2088(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4% and that 17.4% of these have only completed primary school; notes that the above figures must be considered in the light of the fact that the labour market and Europe’s level of competitiveness will both tend to favour holders of higher education qualifications;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the Commission should present to the committee in a year’s time a survey, assessment and evaluation of national reform programmes; calls for the assessment to be based on the specific national, regional, and local features of early school leaving;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to carry out an analysis of the problem of early school leaving, while taking due account of data protection, and to develop appropriate packages of measures for prevention, intervention and compensation, including specialised establishments or school support services for recognised disabilities;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Advocates flexible, needs-based forms of learning at schools and stresses that this challenge must be addressed in particular by primary schools and in the early years of secondary schooling; takes the view that teaching staff should be qualified for this purpose; considers that every pupil is entitled to personalised monitoring and guidance and, where necessary, should have access to a school psychologist and psychological follow-up;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for actors outside school to set up networks so as to enable schools to support pupils more effectively and tackle the problems that put children in difficulty;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that pupils’ personal situations, e.g. gender, low level of education in the family or a migrant background, must be taken into account, and that these pupils must be given targeted encouragement from the outset; stresses that Roma children and children with no identity papers must be enabled to attend schoolfrom disadvantaged populations must receive help to enable them to attend school (administrative and financial aid, subsidised transport) and cope with homework;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Advocates desegregation policies to change the social make-up of ‘disadvantaged’ schools and improve the educational attainment of children from socially disadvantaged and low-education backgrounds;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Supports forms of positive discrimination such as priority education zones and programmes providing targeted support for schools in disadvantaged areas;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that special individual careers advice be given to early school leavers to facilitate their entry into the world of work, and that they should be enabled by means of specially tailored measures to obtain skills and qualifications later and benefit from retraining opportunities and course equivalence arrangements;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)