Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-12-Speech-3-183"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20051012.17.3-183"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
".
Mr President, Mr Bono’s report is excellent and in my two minutes I should like to make a few brief remarks about it. The new Member States are less developed than the older ones in many areas, but not in relation to education. Despite its ideological barriers, the Hungarian educational system became rather successful after the Second World War. There was hardly any social discrimination: children from different social backgrounds attended the same schools and extra lessons were either free or particularly inexpensive.
If we want non-discriminatory access to quality education, we should have more general standards and fewer exceptions in education. For example, the teaching of foreign languages as part of the general curriculum should be paid by the budget and not by the parents themselves. Non-discriminatory access should mean equal chances provided by the Member States to children from the lower classes as well as ethnic minorities.
In some Member States, such as Hungary, universities have entrance examinations. The general schooling system should provide enough knowledge for those exams, because the special courses are exclusive and expensive for children of the lower classes, for single parents and for children from ethnic minorities. The cooperation of the universities, on the one hand, and industry and its research centres on the other hand, should be regular and strong. This should also mean not only the development of education but the training of teachers.
Just today I met a young Turkish expert from Junior Chamber International, hosted by our Socialist Group. She told me about a pilot project run by them and the European Union, which already provided useful information on entrepreneurship for around a thousand Turkish teachers. This kind of pilot project should be encouraged by us."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples