It may contain information on early school leaving rates, on transitions between educational levels, enrolment rates and completion rates of upper secondary education, as well as on school absenteeism and school-avoiding behaviour.

One in seven young people currently leave education and training before they have completed upper secondary education.

E. whereas on 6 January 2010 a drive-by shooting killed seven individuals – six Coptic Christians and a policeman – and injured others when worshipers were leaving a church after midnight mass on Coptic Christmas Eve in the city of Nagaa Hammadi in Upper Egypt; whereas, in recent weeks, further clashes involving Coptic Christians and Muslims have broken out and have been qualified by the Egyptian Government as individual incidents,

The proposed upper limits on retail prices of call charges are too low and leave no space for creative competition amongst different types of operators and services.

These reference levels include reading literacy, early school leaving, completion of upper secondary education and participation of adults in lifelong learning, and are closely linked to the development of key competences.

14. Points out that lifelong learning helps to satisfy a social necessity and meet the needs of the European labour market and maintains that it also constitutes a social right, irrespective of age, sex, or social background; believes that socially disadvantaged groups (women, immigrants, people living below the poverty line) should be entitled to benefit as a matter of priority in view of the difficulties that they generally encounter because of their low level of training and the fact that they are marginalised in relation to education and training systems; and calls for measures providing for specific possibilities designed for such groups, so as to guarantee equal opportunities for all; hopes, finally, that specific targets will be s ...[+++]et, especially as regards those who have been unable to complete upper secondary education: the illiterate, the unskilled, the unemployed, people with disabilities, the over-50s, migrants, and women at the end of maternity leave, etc.;