What qualifications will Europe need by 2020?

- which skills?- how to provide the right skills for employability?- how to work adequately with business?

skills mismatches

Challenges?

European Area for Skills and Qualifications

‘Rethinking Education’ November 2012

Europe 2020 growth strategy

5 targets for the EU 2020

Education- 40% of 30-34–year-olds third level education - early school leaving below 10%- underperformance below15% (e.g. nearly 20% of 15 year olds lack sufficient skills in reading)- reduce adults with a low level of education (73 million)- increase participation in lifelong learning (at present 8,9% only)Employment75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employedR&D 3% of the EU's GDP to be invested in R&DClimate change and energy sustainability20% (or even 30%, if the conditions are right) greenhouse gas emissions lower than 199020% of energy from renewables20% increase in energy efficiencyFighting poverty and social exclusionat least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion

1. revising all teaching professions

2. strengthening transversal skills entrepreneurial initiative, digital skills foreign languages

3. improving performance of students at risk of early school leavingincreasing inclusiveness low-skilled adults

4. developing world-class vocational education and trainingmobilitypromoting work based learning

quality traineeships, apprenticeships dual learning models

5. increase the efficiency of funding in education

What to do?

Tertiary education - 40%

Teachers are an ageing profession in most countries

How to become more entrepreneurial?

ICT skills levels vary greatly between countries

Basic skills levels are still lacking in many countries

Great diversity in Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Work-Based Learning is still an exception

There are financial constraints in the sector Evolution of

teacher salaries compared with the previous year

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop

(Henry Adams)