‘education establishment’ means a public or private secondary education establishment recognised by the Member State concerned or whose courses of study are recognised in accordance with national law or administrative practice on the basis of transparent criteria and which participates in a pupil exchange scheme or educational project for the purposes set out in this Directive.

39. Calls on HEIs, public administrations, social partners and enterprises to lead an ongoing dialogue facilitating and enhancing employability; stresses, in this regard, the need to focus the discussion on the unused potential of higher education in terms of stimulating growth and employment; calls on EHEA countries and HEIs to enhance cooperation in order to ensure quality traineeships and apprenticeships and to strengthen mobility in this context; stresses that stakeholders should cooperate better to raise initial qualifications and renew a skilled workforce, as well as to improve the provision, accessibility and quality of guidanc ...[+++]e on careers and employment; considers, moreover, that work placements within study programmes and on‑the‑job learning should be further encouraged;

39. Calls on HEIs, public administrations, social partners and enterprises to lead an ongoing dialogue facilitating and enhancing employability; stresses, in this regard, the need to focus the discussion on the unused potential of higher education in terms of stimulating growth and employment; calls on EHEA countries and HEIs to enhance cooperation in order to ensure quality traineeships and apprenticeships and to strengthen mobility in this context; stresses that stakeholders should cooperate better to raise initial qualifications and renew a skilled workforce, as well as to improve the provision, accessibility and quality of guidanc ...[+++]e on careers and employment; considers, moreover, that work placements within study programmes and on‑the‑job learning should be further encouraged;

59. Calls for the Union and its Member States to implement a concrete and effective mobility policy with the countries of the Southern Neighbourhood, in particular by simultaneously signing visa liberalisation agreements and readmission agreements similar to those signed with most countries of the Eastern Partnership; underlines, in this context, the importance of increasing mobility and cooperation in the field of academic education and vocational training, broadening and increasing the existing programmes and mobility of students, graduates, teachers and academics, and promoting exchanges between higher education and training institutions, along with public-private partnerships in the field of research and enterprise; considers it essen ...[+++]tial to develop easier procedures for issuing visas to participants in such programmes; calls for the EU to develop a sensible and comprehensive strategy involving the EEAS, the Commission, Member States and partners in the Southern Neighbourhood to deal with migration and protect refugees and asylum seekers originating from the Southern Neighbourhood, especially in the light of the Arab Spring and continued instability in North Africa;

29. Calls on the Commission to develop legislation requiring large financial institutions to submit their boards to regular external evaluation aimed at ensuring not only high standards of contributions by individual directors, but also that the board as a whole and its committees are in a position to deliver on the institution's strategic objectives and management of the risk; requires large financial institutions to confirm in their annual reports that they have undertaken such an evaluation, the name of the external evaluator, a d ...[+++]escription of the scope of the evaluation and that they have acted on the latter's recommendations; calls on the ESAs to develop guidance on the scope of such evaluations in consultation with the industry, shareholders and regulators;

29. Calls on the Commission to develop legislation requiring large financial institutions to submit their boards to regular external evaluation aimed at ensuring not only high standards of contributions by individual directors, but also that the board as a whole and its committees are in a position to deliver on the institution's strategic objectives and management of the risk; requires large financial institutions to confirm in their annual reports that they have undertaken such an evaluation, the name of the external evaluator, a d ...[+++]escription of the scope of the evaluation and that they have acted on the latter’s recommendations; calls on ESMA to develop guidance on the scope of such evaluations in consultation with the industry, shareholders and regulators;