Improving the education system
- expand opportunities to study general and vocational subjects simultaneously in post-compulsory schooling;
- increase cooperation between polytechnics and universities and clarify their separate roles;
- develop adult education and training into a coherent system which can respond to the educational needs of adults and to labour market requirements;
- devise ways to recognise prior learning for all levels of education.
- make educational content more relevant to the modern world taking into account the growing role of international cooperation and multiculturalism;
- enhance remedial teaching, special needs teaching and student welfare services to improve early intervention;
- promote entrepreneurship by improving links between education and working life, enriching teachers' and guidance counsellors' entrepreneurial knowledge, and ensuring better educational content and methods;
- improve the quality of work practice and work-based learning;
- provide more flexible options to maintain and improve the vocational skills of the working population; i
- mprove the teaching for guidance counsellors as well as for pupils with special educational needs and immigrants, and improve the use of information and communication technology in teaching.
- ensure that by 2015 the proportion of those aged 25-29 with at least secondary qualifications will rise from 85 % to at least 90 %; and that the share of those aged 30-34 with higher education will rise from 40 % to at least 50 %;
- provide opportunities for those completing secondary education to gain qualifications or degrees in initial vocational training;
- ensure that by 2008, 25 % of new polytechnic students and 2-3 % of new university students graduate through the basic education/initial vocational qualification track;
- ensure a better gender balance in vocational and general upper secondary education;
- provide post-compulsory education or training for all, so that by 2008 at least 96 % of comprehensive school-leavers begin in a general upper secondary school, in vocational education and training or in voluntary basic further education.
