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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, education is one of those areas of competence which is very much part of what goes on in a community, and so it should be. This competence must be carried out as closely to the population as possible, and that means that there will probably never be a need for a general European education system. But it is exactly because education is so important in the passing on, not only of knowledge and in the acquisition of skills, but it is also in the passing on of cultural heritage and in the integration of the individual into the social fabric that sound education is vital. Accordingly, we pour huge amounts of money into education and yet, there is an increasing need for European quality monitoring. That is why we would like to lend our support in this matter.
Parents know that education requires a huge effort from children and students, but at the same time they expect to see results. In the old days, maybe attending a good school was sufficient, because it enjoyed our ideological trust. That criterion is no longer enough on its own, and has not been for a long time. Parents want quality education, and children who attend school want to actually learn what is important in life.
Each one of us can ask the question how important common quality monitoring is in our own environment. What it did lead to in Flanders is a high level of self-evaluation in the schools. They sensed of their own accords that they needed to make a stand in the world of education. It has also led to increasing levels of care and concern across the borders. In Flanders, quality monitoring used to be a bit of a taboo subject, for example, for it was feared that this would breed hostility in the different educational networks. We now see that the opposite is true. The desire for quality monitoring in education has opened up the door to this large European Community and to the job market of this European Community. Quality monitoring has thus increasingly become a common area of concern.
Today, I can show you the results of an enquiry which was held across the Flemish education system to check whether both primary and secondary education meet the common standards. It is quite striking how much media attention this enquiry received, precisely because they know that parents, students and the entire teaching environment scrutinise these results. After all, each school, each educational network, wants to come out of this enquiry smelling of roses, but at the same time, each parent wants their children to attend good schools.
It has come to my attention that the world of education has been complaining about a lack of resources. After all, not only do we want our children to do well at school, we also want their schools to be well equipped, the environments to be safe, in other words the infrastructure to be up to scratch. Unfortunately, a great deal of resources are still needed in many countries in order to achieve this."@en1
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