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"More than 6 million teenagers leave the education system with no qualifications. The Member States are all experiencing this problem, which is increasing dramatically and therefore justifies the fact that Parliament has focused on the issue by voting, this afternoon, for a resolution on early school leaving. According to recent figures, 52% of young people who leave school with no qualifications find themselves out of work, and will join the ranks of the 5.5 million young people who are unemployed. This is quite simply unacceptable and untenable in the long term if we want to maintain social cohesion and intergenerational solidarity in our Western societies. That is why we should welcome the interesting proposals set out in the Honeyball report, such as extending compulsory education from the age of 16 to 18, and setting up more ‘second chance schools’, given that a single approach does not suit all young people in schools. Reversing this trend of early school leaving cannot be achieved by decree; it requires investment in education. It is important to reassert the value of technical streams and guarantee that qualifications will entitle a person to a job. Entitlement not luck: that is the dilemma that needs to be resolved in the field of education."@en1
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