Lastly, the criterion of long-term consistency of merits enables the appointing authority in reality to strike a fair balance between the aim of ensuring rapid career progression for outstanding officials with an exceptionally high performance level, and the aim of ensuring a normal career for officials who have performed consistently well over a long period.

Developing early-warning systems for pupils at risk, which can help to take effective measures before problems become manifest, pupils start to alienate from school, play truant or drop out.

the development of the Indicator should fully respect the responsibility of Member States for the organisation of their education systems and should not impose undue administrative or financial burdens on the organisation and institutions concerned; the method for data-gathering should take account of previous work in the field at international, Union and Member State level, and be devised and implemented in a cost-effective manner; the European Indicator of Language Competence shall be put in place as soon as possible, in accordance with the following terms of reference: data should be gathered on competences in first and second foreign languages: via a common suite of tests administered to a representative sample of the target populatio ...[+++]n in each Member State; from a representative sample of pupils in education and training at the end of ISCED level 2; where a second foreign language is not taught before the end of ISCED 2, Member States may, in the first round of data-gathering, choose to gather data for the second foreign language from pupils at the level of ISCED 3; for those languages for which there exists a suitable representative sample of learners in a given Member State; test scores should be based on the scales of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ; because respect for linguistic diversity is a core value of the European Union, the Indicator should be based upon data concerning the knowledge of all the official languages of the European Union taught as foreign languages in the Union; but for practical reasons it would be advisable, in the first round of data-gathering, for tests to be made available in those official languages of the European Union that are most widely taught in the Member States, to the extent that they provide a sufficiently large sample of testees ; Member States shall themselves determine which of those official languages are to be tested; the Indicator should assess competence in the four productive a ...

* * * [Text] Question No. 215 Mrs. Bev Desjarlais: With regard to federal actions concerning the town of Grand Rapids and the Grand Rapids First Nation in Manitoba: (a) with the planned construction of the hydro dam in the Grand Rapids area beginning in the 1950s and continuing into the 1960s and 1970s, what was the consultation process with the local aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities; (b) did the government take on the representation of the First Nation community; (c) what was the impact of the project on the surrounding communities; (d) what is the current status of the planned Manitoba Lowlands National Park; (e) who were ...[+++]the stakeholders identified in the establishment of the national park; (f) what consultations were undertaken with the communities regarding the establishment of the park; (g) what contacts were made with the Mayor and Council of the Town of Grand Rapids; (h) what contacts were made with the Chief and Council of the Grand Rapids First Nation; (i) what is the expected opening date of the park; (j) have there been any environmental studies done on the effects of the dam; (k) have there been any outstanding monetary or land claim issues related to the dam construction; and (l) what was the total cost of compensation paid by the government to the First Nation or the town?

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We will be working together with the provinces and with municipalities to deal with the high-risk situations quickly and to deal with the other situations as time proceeds.