Key actions are reviewing the effectiveness as well as the academic and pedagogical quality of Initial Teacher Education, introducing coherent and adequately resourced systems for recruitment, selection, induction and professional development of teaching staff based on clearly defined competences needed at each stage of a teaching career, and increasing teacher digital competence.

Article 52. 3 point 2 of the Act of 15 July 2011 on professions of nurse and midwife (Official Journal of the Republic of Poland of 2011 No 174, pos. 1039) and the Regulation of the Minister of Health of 14 June 2012 on the detailed conditions of delivering higher education courses for nurses and midwives who hold a certificate of secondary school (final examination – matura) and are graduates of a medical secondary school or a post-secondary school teaching in a profession of a nurse and a midwife (Official Journal of the Republic of Poland of 2012, pos. 770),

Certainly I would agree with you, sir, that criminal records are becoming more and more relied upon. It's not just crossing the border, but it's vulnerable background checks if you want to work with children, be a teacher, be a nurse, be a doctor, enter a profession.

In terms of your question around models of nursing education, we recognize that there is a shortage of nursing faculty.

If we are prepared to change the definition and threshold of basic public education, then of course we must also be willing to publicly support it and make it available to everyone as a basic right.

Measures involving universities and other institutes of higher education On the basis of experience acquired under the Erasmus, Comett and Lingua programmes, the objective would be to encourage innovation and improvements in the quality of teaching, especially by: - encouraging larger-scale exchanges (with the Member States gradually taking over after the Community has provided initial stimulus); - strengthening the European network of inter-university partnerships in such a way as to help institutionalise the European dimension of education, more particularly with a view to fostering the teaching of foreign languages and cooperation in ...[+++] the field of teacher training; - promoting special open and distance learning measures with a view to incorporating a European dimension into the teaching given to those who do not have the chance to study in another country; - increasing the range of agreements on the academic recognition of diplomas and periods of study, thus helping to achieve a genuinely open market in occupations.