provides learning support | providing learning support | provide learning support | supply learning support

educational retardation [ academic retardation | slow learning | slow progress | scholastic retardation | mental backwardness ]

learning experience outside the school

educational supplies

young persons undergoing apprenticeships or post-educational training courses

dropout [ dropping out | early school leaver | early school leaving | educational dropout | school dropout | student dropout | university dropout | school leavers(UNBIS) ]

education counsellor | training adviser | educational counsellor | school counsellor

primary school manager | secondary school manager | executive headteacher | headteacher

24. Stresses that a frequent reason for failure among children and young people is that school curricula are ill-suited to the needs of children's lives and their socially-conditioned interests; points out that an excessively rigid and uniform education system makes it hard to individualise school work and difficult to link education with everyday needs;

non-formal learning means learning which takes place through planned activities (in terms of learning objectives, learning time) where some form of learning support is present (e.g. student-teacher relationships); it may cover programmes to impart work skills, adult literacy and basic education for early school leavers; very common cases of non-formal learning include in-company training, through which companies update and improve the skills of their workers such as ICT skills, structured on-line learning (e.g. by making use of open educational resources), and courses organised by civil society organisations for their members, their target group or the general public;

(13) In order to ensure the overall quality of mobility, it is desirable to make the freedom of movement for workers a right for all EU citizens and to apply the principles and recommendations above mentioned to all types of mobility for learning or professional development purposes: education or training; formal and non-formal learning, including volunteering; short and long mobility periods; school, university or job-related learning; measures in connection with lifelong learning; measures favouring young and adult learners, disabled students, as well as for elderly people, etc.

(13) In order to ensure the overall quality of mobility, it is desirable to make the freedom of movement for workers a right for all EU citizens and to apply the above-mentioned principles and recommendations to all types of mobility for learning or professional development purposes: education or training; formal and non-formal learning, including volunteering; short and long mobility periods; school, higher education or job-related learning; measures in connection with lifelong learning; measures favouring young and adult learners, disabled students, as well as elderly people, etc.