Alternative Learning System of Ontario

Alongside the action to boost the number and quality of apprenticeships and training opportunities, the Commission is working closely with Member States, social partners and providers of vocational education and training providers to reinforce their vocational education and training systems.

34. Stresses that the ability to use media independently and critically represents a lifelong learning task across generations, which is subject to constant change, in parallel with the development of the media and understood as a key qualification; stresses that the adaptation of education and training systems is vital to improve the level of ICT professionalism in Europe and to meet the increasing demand for digitally skilled professionals in the EU; encourages, in this regard, the Commission and the Member States to create the ba ...[+++]sis for mutual recognition of digital skills and qualifications by setting up a European certificate or grading system, following the example of the European common framework of reference for language learning and teaching; stresses that further efforts are needed in the field of improving media literacy among citizens, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote media literacy for all EU citizens, in particular vulnerable people, through initiatives and coordinated actions; suggests that internet literacy be added permanently to the scope of efforts to increase media literacy;

13. In particular, asks the Member States to implement measures targeted at young people likely to leave school early or who are not in education, training or employment, in order to offer them quality learning, and provide them with training and youth guarantee schemes, so that they can gain the skills and experience they need to enter employment, and in order to facilitate the re-entry of some of them into the educational system; calls, at the same time, for special attention to vocational education and training in tertiary education, taking into account the diversity of national education systems; calls on the Member States to step ...[+++]up their efforts to ensure that young people can gain real work experience and quickly enter the job market; stresses that traineeships must be relevant for the studies and form part of the curriculum;

33. Encourages educational authorities to work together pro-actively on the mutual recognition of qualifications – gained from formal, informal and non-formal education – and professions which correspond to the standards set by Member States; considers it crucial that Member States make full use of the EQF and give appropriate follow-up to forthcoming initiatives on the European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training, so that classification in the levels of the national educational system and of the Lifelong Learning pro ...[+++]gramme allows mobile workers to continue their training; endorses the Commission's commitment to developing Europass in order to make qualifications more readable for employers; stresses the value of the Euraxess Services;