20. Stresses that the shortage of skilled labour should also be tackled by targeted education and vocational and lifelong training in the Member States, also within businesses; proposes, to that end, expanding the international dimension of the EU’s lifelong learning mobility programme; stresses, furthermore, that underachievement and high school drop-out rates affecting children of migrant workers should be tackled by guaranteeing minors’ rights to education, by measures including funding, study grants, further learning pathways and the provision of information on Member ...[+++] States’ education systems and the associated rights and obligations in as many languages as possible; recalls the success of the dual education system / dual training system used in some Member States in helping young migrants enter the labour market and bringing youth unemployment down; deems it necessary to train educational staff in managing diversity and to consider means of recruiting migrants to public-sector posts, particularly as teachers; encourages Member States to promote ethnic entrepreneurs and acknowledges their important role in integration, job creation and community leadership;

the recognition and validation of basic skills, key competences, formal, non-formal and informal qualifications and education in order to ensure transparency as to learning outcomes, thereby facilitating the recognition of learning achievements and the transition between different learning pathways;

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to upgrade guidance for young people into technical courses of study with potential for jobs and integration; to this end, asks that the Union, assisted in turn by the Member States, launch an information campaign to promote technical trades of excellence among young people and their parents in order thereby to remedy their often negative social image; supports more research, research development, mobility among researchers and students through Erasmus Mundus; urges the Commission to remove barriers to mobility and to create a pilot project aimed at framing an Erasmus-type programme for apprentices in ...[+++] order to facilitate access by apprentices to "new generation" Community education and training programmes;

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to upgrade guidance for young people into technical courses of study with potential for jobs and integration; to this end, asks that the Union, assisted in turn by the Member States, launch an information campaign to promote technical trades of excellence among young people and their parents in order thereby to remedy their often negative social image; supports more research, research and development, mobility among researchers and students through Erasmus Mundus; urges the Commission to remove barriers to mobility and to create a pilot project aimed at framing an Erasmus-type programme for apprentices in ...[+++] order to facilitate access by apprentices to ‘new generation’ Community education and training programmes;

raising and ensuring the attractiveness, openness and quality standards of education and training, broadening the supply of education and training opportunities and ensuring flexible learning pathways and enlarging possibilities for mobility for students and trainees,

4. to improve the education and training of teachers and trainers involved in lifelong learning so that they acquire the necessary teaching skills for the knowledge society, thus promoting among other aims general access to language learning, access for all to ICTs, and increased participation in scientific and technical studies.