Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-04-20-Speech-5-197-625"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-04-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"et"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120420.21.5-197-625"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-04-20-Speech-5-197-7502
lpv:speaker	lp:Siiri Oviir2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Eesti Keskerakond (2009-07-14--2012-05-24)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I concur with the issues identified in the report on the modernising of Europe’s higher education systems and the challenges in the area of higher education in Europe. The foremost objective of institutions offering higher education is to prepare people to compete in the labour market. In order to fulfil this objective successfully, efforts must be made in three directions. Firstly, the real needs of the labour market, and the expectations it has of graduates of higher education institutions, must be regularly mapped to ensure that Europe’s higher education system does not ‘produce’ people whose education and skills do not match existing jobs. Along similar lines, institutions offering higher education should also monitor their graduates’ subsequent progress and career path. Based on the needs of the labour market and the career paths of present graduates, improvements can be made to existing curricula. Secondly, higher education institutions must be ready today to accept an altogether different group of people from those they accepted a few decades ago – the specialisations taught today and the instruction itself must be suitable for people with very different backgrounds with respect to age, gender, ethnicity, mother tongue, disability, prior work experience, etc. In addition, the nature of traditional professions and people’s attitudes have changed, and I therefore think that the third priority in the modernisation of higher education systems should be to make vocational guidance more effective. In addition to presenting different career paths, such guidance should encourage people to choose careers that are untypical for their gender (for instance, encouraging men to apply for work at institutions offering secondary education or encouraging women to seek careers in more technical fields)."@en1

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