47. Encourages Member States to invest in teacher training and qualified staff for both pre-school and compulsory education, and regularly to review and update educational systems and programmes for the continuous development of teachers' skills; stresses the importance of children entering a school environment from an early age and suggests that teaching assistants be employed in schools to work with struggling pupils and to assist teachers in their work, along with auxiliary staff to help disabled pupils in their schooling in standard educational establishments or in those that cater for their disability;

30. Underlines the need for the further development of methodologies assessing the effects of trade and trade agreements on the promotion of decent work, including in global supply chains and export processing zones as well as the need to ensure the strengthening and effective timing of the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments;

use ICT to maximise access to training and to promote active learning, as well as to develop new methods in both work- and school-based VET, in order to facilitate the participation of ‘at risk’ groups.

ICT should be used to maximise access to training and to promote active learning, as well as to develop new methods in both work- and school-based VET.

This can be achieved, for example, through labour market relevant VET, increased work-based learning and apprenticeships, flexible learning pathways, effective guidance and counselling, and by learning content and methods that acknowledge young people’s lifestyles and interests, while maintaining high-level quality standards for VET.

8. Urges the Member States to provide sufficient numbers of suitably qualified personnel and ensure that all necessary up-to-date information required in order to process asylum applications is made accessible; believes that, to ensure that applications are processed in a consistent fashion, standard criteria must be laid down to provide a basis on which to assess the situation in asylum-seekers' countries of origin; considers in addition that further training of staff should be encouraged (exchange of officials and experiences in the various authorities, comparison of working methods ...[+++] and practices);