The Canadian Council on Learning, with the support of such organizations as the Council of Ontario Universities, is calling for a national data strategy and a national framework that will set goals and measure progress.

26. Calls on the European Council to ensure that the Education, Youth and Culture Council moves forward on the action plan for education systems in a way that ties in with the employment strategy, and thus respects subsidiarity; suggests that, in improving school and vocational training policies, governments could learn from the Programme for International Student Assessment study that all participants in the labour market must have access to lifelong learning through framework agreements on employment conditions between the social partners;

(11c) The European Council of Lisbon of 23 and 24 March 2000 declared its support for mobility as an essential feature of the new knowledge society and in promoting life-long learning. It called on the Member States, the Council and the Commission to take the necessary steps to foster the mobility of students, teachers and training staff, in particular by removing obstacles, through greater transparency in the recognition of qualifications and periods of study and training and through specific measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of teachers by 2002, and to develop a common European format for curricula vitae to facilitate mobili ...[+++]ty by helping the assessment, both by education and training establishments and by employers, of knowledge acquired. The European Council also called on the Council and the Commission to promote the creation of a Europe-wide database on jobs and learning opportunities to facilitate mobility, while making it easier to find jobs and overcome the skills shortage.

This effort is scheduled to use specific measures contained in the conclusions of the Lisbon European Council, particularly with regard to the Internet and methods of apprenticeship and vocational training. In our opinion, these may be able to form a future action plan, which will be assessed every year at special meetings of the European Council, which will always take place in the spring.

We received some fascinating testimony from the Canadian Council on Learning, which completed a report in December 2009 called The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada: A Holistic Approach to Measuring Success.

the new strategic goal set for the European Union by the Lisbon European Council of 23-24 March 2000 and reaffirmed by the Stockholm European Council of 23 and 24 March 2001, "to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion"; the conclusions of the Spring 2005 European Council, which underline that "human capital is Europe's most important asset" ; the Lisbon European Council's affirmation that Europe's education and training systems need to adapt both to the demands of the knowledge society and to the need for a higher level and quality of employment. Hence, the mandate from the Lisbon European Council to the Edu ...[+++]cation Council "to undertake a general reflection on concrete future objectives of education systems, focusing on common concerns and priorities while respecting national diversity with a view to contributing to the Luxembourg and Cardiff processes" ; the Barcelona European Council conclusions of 15-16 March 2002 , which endorsed the work programme, including an indicative list of indicators to be used to measure progress towards the implementation of the thirteen concrete objectives through the Open Method of Coordination, with the aim for European education and training systems of becoming "a world reference for quality by 2010", and which called for the establishment of a linguistic competence indicator; the reaffirmation of the central role of indicators and the five reference levels in giving directions and measuring progress in the field of education and training towards the Lisbon goals ; the Joint Interim Report of February 2004, which underlined the need to improve the quality and comparability of existing indicators, particularly in the field of lifelong learning, and its request that the Standing Group on Indicators and Benchmarks and all existing Working Groups propose, by the end of 2004, a limited list of new indi ...