5. Calls on the Member States and competent authorities to provide physical education teachers with training in the issue of gender by including this aspect in their curriculum; calls for an end to the downgrading of the status of physical education as a subject and of the status of PE teachers; stresses the importance of the possibility of sports coeducation for children at nursery and primary schools as well as the option of having either sports coeducation or single sex classes from secondary level onwards in order to encourage girls to try out sports traditionally practiced by men ; stresses the need to explore alternative forms o ...[+++]f physical activity, which could be practiced on an optional basis, preferably outside compulsory state education;

This study shows that more than one third of the European workforce (80 million persons) is low-skilled whilst it has been estimated that by 2010 almost 50 % of new jobs will require tertiary level qualifications, just under 40 % will require upper secondary schooling, and only about 15 % will be suitable for those with basic schooling.

(G) Whereas 59% of workers finished lower secondary or second stage of basic education and further 30,49% finished upper secondary education;

(i) either training at post-secondary level other than that referred to in points (d) and (e) of a duration of at least one year or of an equivalent duration on a part-time basis , one of the conditions of entry of which is, as a general rule, the successful completion of the secondary course required to obtain entry to university or higher education or the completion of equivalent school education of the second secondary level , as well as the professional training which may be required in addition to that post-secondary course,

We now need to build upon that success by mainstreaming that experience, so that it moves beyond the pilot stage into all schools; improving the way in which we deal with transition phases from one school to another - so that success in primary education is effectively built upon in secondary; and ensuring the availability of mother-tongue foreign language speakers in schools who can help children develop their skills beyond the capacity of normal primary or secondary teachers.

- about three quarters of "Europass Training" holders are in education or training at secondary or upper secondary level; lower and higher levels of education each account for 10-15% of the cases.