17 Amendments of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2020/2243(INI)
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas everyone has the right to inclusive and quality education, training and lifelong learning in order to acquire and maintain the skills that will enable them to develop their professional and personal potential to the fullest extent;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas investing in education, training and the effective use of skills will be crucial for the EU’s economic and social prosperity, particularly in the light of the green and digital transitions, and demographic change and globalisation, which are changaffecting the nature of work, the content of jobs and the skills and qualifications required;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission communication of 30 September 2020 entitled ‘Achieving the European Education Area by 2025’ (COM(2020)0625) which encompasses six dimensions – quality, inclusion and gender equality, the green and digital transitions, teachers and trainers, higher education and the geopolitical dimension – and a set of targets with the aim of improving outcomes and ensuring resilient and future- looking education systems;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that, under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Article 165), the Union is required to fully respect the responsibility of the Member States for the content of teaching and the organisation of education systems, while the European Parliament in particular, in accordance with its terms of reference deriving from this article, must not seek in any way to harmonise Member State laws and regulations in the field of education;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses the importance of reducing the percentage of 15-year-olds underachieving in reading, mathematics and science by 2025, this being a key objective not achieved by the previous EU strategic framework for cooperation in education and training (ET 2020), while remaining essential to enable the young people concerned to go on to obtain professional qualifications and skills;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the importance of ensuring inclusivetegrated and quality education, and promoting lifelong learning, including vocational education and training (VET), for all across the Union, to ensure equal opportunities in the labour market; welcomes, in this context, the development of a European apexchange of best proach totices regarding micro- credentials and individual learning accounts;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the inclusion of the European competence framework for climate change and sustainable development in the ESCO classification, rather than introducing a new framework;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to draw up a proposal to facilitate the free movement of students throughout the Union, reducing difficulties arising from the absence of automatic validation for annual learning outcomes;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on Member States to take action to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of expenditure on education and training;
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the opportunities created by digital work to achieve the inclusion of all in the labour market; highlights, in this regard, the need to provide access to the development of digital skills, as well as competences in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and cross-cutting soft skills such as critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurship, to everyone; underlines that special attention must be paid to the inclusion of disadvantaged groupsgroups that might be more adversely affected in this context, in particularsuch as persons with disabilities;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the Commission, in drawing up its agenda for the transformation of higher education, must avoid encouraging any measures regarding educational content or the organisation of education systems, including counselling services, so as not to encroach upon the prerogatives of the Member States under primary legislation;
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the involvement of women in various educational and professional fields should not be achieved by imposing gender mainstreaming in schools and colleges;
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Stresses that, with regard to educational options, the freedom of families should be respected with regard to choice of study for children or older students of both sexes;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Endorses the request to the Council to make compliance with heading 4.3 of the European Education Area a key commitment with regard to the acquisition of professional skills and qualifications in Europe;
Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Stresses the need to include in the European Education Area a section devoted to the personal development and social integration of children with special needs in centres staffed by specially trained teachers and suitably equipped to achieve the best results in this respect.