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I very much appreciate this atmosphere and the obvious consensus regarding the need for more and better investments in education. This report, this recommendation concerning key competences, is about using the same funds more efficiently so as to ensure better outcomes. Last year there were six million student dropouts in the European Union. This is an enormous number. I believe that this number alone should be enough to make us focus more on what subjects are taught and how they are taught, on curriculum content and on improving the supply side, as our schools all too often produce young graduates who join the ranks of the unemployed.
Let me make just a few observations for everyone to consider. This understanding of key competences implies a kind of equilibrium and a single space both for economic competitiveness and social cohesion or social responsibility. The same argument can be used regarding the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences. Both are necessary. I believe that the key competences reflect this. As Mrs Pack has said, this serves as a basis of reform for many countries in the Western Balkans, the new Member States, and even in the old ones. It is a good thing that we can stimulate and in a way unify this process and progress towards modernising educational content.
I would also like to underscore what Mrs Harkin has said, namely that the key competence is learning to learn rather than wait for encyclopaedic knowledge to be acquired in school; being able to handle information, experience and an environment which are increasingly more complex and more global. In addition, the cultural faculty for perceiving and expressing oneself, as well as interpersonal and intersocial relations are extremely important in shaping personalities and mature citizens. I would therefore like to thank Mrs Trüpel again for her excellent presentation of the committee’s position. I believe that this will be reflected in the vote. I am looking forward to more progress in implementing the key competences and skills. This is a process."@en1
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