level of education

interest rate option | IRO | interest rate option contract

core rate of inflation [ core inflation rate | underlying rate of inflation | underlying inflation rate | trend rate of inflation | trend inflation rate ]

forward rate agreement [ FRA | future rate agreement ]

entrepreneurial intention rate | entrepreneurship intention rate | success rate of aspiring entrepreneurs

interest rate option | interest rate option contract

internal rate of return | yield [ IRR ]

increase in the discount rate | increase in the minimum lending rate | increase in the rediscount rate | rise in the minimum lending rate

standard cost rate | standard rate

75. Notes, with great concern, that according to NGO statistics, over three million children under the age of 17 are working in Mali; deplores this situation, especially given that this results in reduced education rates and low literacy rates;

76. Notes, with great concern, that according to NGO statistics, over three million children under the age of 17 are working in Mali; deplores this situation, especially given that this results in reduced education rates and low literacy rates;

1. Regrets that the percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4 % and that 17.4 % of these have only completed primary school; notes that reducing early school leaving has been a target for the EU and Member States for many years but not sufficient progress has been made, with rates for early school leaving above 30 % in some Member States; notes the tremendous divergence in the percentage of early school leavers in the various Member States and the difficulty of drawing comparisons in terms of relevant contextual factors – such as migratory movements and levels of education in the family – between different r ...[+++]egions and Member States; points out that these children are most often from low-education backgrounds or socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and are more often boys than girls; calls therefore for a stronger commitment from Member States and for closer monitoring on the part of the Commission in order to make sure that Member States are creating and implementing strategies to reduce early school leaving; warns that the possible public spending cuts in the education sector on account of the economic crisis and the budgetary austerity policies being implemented in Member States will have adverse effects in that they will further increase the numbers of early school leavers in the EU;

58. States that the present education and training systems are not sufficient to prevent a high drop-out rate of people with disabilities without additional public policies offering specific learning support, since the figure relating to the Europe2020 objective represents a reduction to less than 10%; stresses that this leads to significant social and employment disadvantages, and resulting poverty, among people with disabilities, especially during the present economic crisis; stresses, given the high drop-out rate of persons with disabilities and in the light of the Council Conclusions of 11 May 2010 on the social dimension of educat ...[+++]ion and training, the need to invest in and promote effective (including alternative) educational and (vocational) training programmes that are tailored to the needs, attributes and abilities of persons with disabilities, and notes that this calls for the availability of an adequate number of qualified and motivated professionals with sound and suitable programmes, as well as the availability of such programmes in the curricula of all vocational education and training and higher education establishments, including in extra-curricular programmes for people with disabilities, in order to combat negative attitudes towards children with disabilities and for them to obtain adequate qualifications for the modern and open labour market; calls on the Member States and the Commission to enable persons with disabilities to have better access to information about existing mobility and education programmes as well as equal access to Lifelong Learning programmes; notes, this being the case, that mainstreaming of anti-discrimination in Europe2020 and its flagship initiatives is needed in order to fulfil Article 24 of the UN CRPD;