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"Madam President, I would like to congratulate Ms Regina Bastos on her excellent report. The global crisis led to a rise in unemployment, including in the rate of young unemployed people, which reaches 40% in some Member States. Unfortunately, in many cases, even employed young people have to take on jobs below their level of skills or qualifications, and their knowledge and talents remain untapped.
The new socio-economic environment requires better employment, educational and organisational strategies. I agree that it is indispensable to improve qualification levels in a targeted manner and by adjusting them to demands in order to help people acquire new skills. For this, we need to inform young people continuously about foreseeable demands for various qualification levels. Thus, they can focus on improving skills that are truly in demand.
Forecasts project a serious shortage of IT, health care and research professionals by 2015, which means that we should focus on these fields. Regrettably, most education and training systems are still not adjusted to labour market demands, which hinders young people’s transition from education into work.
Unfortunately, at the time of the crisis, Member States tend to cut back on their education and training budget, even though this is the area that is in great need of reform programmes in order to adapt to the rapidly changing labour market. Our response to challenges must be flexible and almost up-to-date. One solution to this could be the adequate supply of training and retraining options, which would enable us to keep up with labour market demands.
It is clear that economic ‘know-how’ and technical and vocational training must be overhauled, which requires major investments. We need more investment in education and innovation.
I agree with and support the fact that in the upcoming legislative proposal on professional qualifications, we should reinforce the mutual recognition of diplomas and professional qualifications."@en1
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