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"Mr President, I abstained on this report on modernising Europe’s higher education system, which is, of course, vitally important. Whilst I accept that there are many serious challenges facing the higher education system today in Europe, in particular due to the current economic crisis, there were certain aspects of this report which worried me.
With such a high level of youth unemployment across our Union, and with the increased demand for new skills resulting from the rapid technological changes that we have seen over recent years, it is clear – in some ways at least – that modernising the higher education system may help it face these problems. I would therefore support the idea of introducing lifelong learning programmes, for example, and increased European cooperation between educational institutions and businesses.
The fact remains, however, that education provisions should ultimately be a Member State responsibility. I could therefore not fully back this report, in view of its calls for increased public funding from Member States at a time of widespread austerity and cuts."@en1
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