1. For each relevant year, the unit value of payment entitlements shall be calculated by dividing the national or regional ceiling established under Articles 19 or 20, after application of the linear reduction provided for in Article 23(1), by the number of payment entitlements allocated at national or regional level according to Article 21(2) for 2014.

35. Stresses that in order to guarantee the participation of girls in compulsory primary education and to prevent them being deprived of their chances to study or being forced into early marriages, it is crucial that the entirety of the formal compulsory primary education system should consist of a block which does not leave gaps in the education system, which might lead to girls dropping out of school, especially in rural areas;

35. Stresses that in order to guarantee the participation of girls in compulsory primary education and to prevent them being deprived of their chances to study or being forced into early marriages, it is crucial that, as is currently the case, the entirety of the formal compulsory primary education system should consist of a block which cannot be replaced by open learning or distance education; is concerned, therefore, at the recent legislative proposal which increases compulsory education from 8 to 12 years but while doing so also aims at introducing the possibility to opt for open learning alternatives after the first four years of pr ...[+++]imary education;

27. Draws attention, in this regard, to the OECD’s PISA studies which establish that students in educational systems with a lesser degree of vertical and horizontal differentiation are less likely to repeat a year or to be expelled; highlights the OECD’s finding that students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds suffer most from having to repeat a school year or from being expelled; highlights the OECD’s finding that early selection of students for different educational pathways increases socio-economic inequality in terms of educational opportunities without effecting any improvement in average performance in the educational system ...[+++]s in question;

The unit cost of a Leonardo trainee placement under the new programme (EUR 3 644) will be more than double that of an Erasmus student mobility (EUR 1 755) and 50% more than the cost (EUR 2 316) of an upper secondary school pupil following courses in another language in a school abroad for up to one year.

Senator Chaput is a classic example of someone appointed to the Senate not for her political beliefs but rather for her passionate work for her causes, including her great work in the francophone school divisions in Manitoba.