measures to support the acquisition of skills by such persons, including language training;

Participation in pre-school education Special needs education Early school leavers Literacy in reading, mathematics and science Language skills ICT skills Civic skills Learning to learn skills Upper secondary completion rates of young people School management Schools as multi-purpose local learning centres | Professional development of teachers and trainers Stratification of education and training systems Higher education graduates Cross-national mobility of students in higher education Participation of adults in lifelong learning Adults’ skills Educational attainment of the population Investment in education and training Returns to educ ...[+++]ation and training |

17. measures to support the acquisition of skills by these persons, including language training;

measures to support the acquisition of skills by these persons, including language training;

14. Considers that the aforementioned Convention on cultural diversity should fully acknowledge the necessity of preserving language diversity as a basic fact of development cooperation and international relations in general, and with that in mind calls for specific strategies for the preservation and protection of diversity and strategies for the promotion of multilingualism to be developed by means of active and concrete support for education in the mother tongue and for the acquisition of foreign languages, training and consciousness-raising without discrimination;

(44) Whereas the approach in Directive 89/552/EEC and this Directive has been adopted to achieve the essential harmonization necessary and sufficient to ensure the free movement of television broadcasts in the Community; whereas Member States remain free to apply to broadcasters under their jurisdiction more detailed or stricter rules in the fields coordinated by this Directive, including, inter alia, rules concerning the achievement of language policy goals, protection of the public interest in terms of television's role as a provider of information, education, culture and entertainment, the need to safeguard pluralism in the information industry and the media, and the protection of competition with a view to avoiding the abuse of dominan ...[+++]t positions and/or the establishment or strengthening of dominant positions by mergers, agreements, acquisitions or similar initiatives; whereas such rules must be compatible with Community law;