Traduction de «Surintendant des écoles élémentaires » (Français → Anglais) :

Starting with early childhood education and basic schooling, but continuing throughout all levels of lifelong learning, targeted measures and greater flexibility are needed to cater for learners with a migrant background, whatever their age, and to provide them with the support and opportunities they need to become active and successful citizens, and empower them to develop their full potential.

The project comprises the construction of an elementary school within a deprived neighbourhood of Podgorica.

Besides cohesion policy support to infrastructure and basic education and training, the Union contribution takes two main forms: supporting individual mobility (such as students, teachers, academics or trainers): and promoting partnerships/networks between schools, universities and training providers in different countries.

The model is a cooperative venture involving municipal authorities, vocational training centres, charitable organisations and local boards of education, upper elementary schools, schools providing "educative assistance" and schools for children with learning difficulties.

Let me give two examples which relate to everything that has been said here about the practical measures I would like to see adopted. One is that by 2002, all of Europe’s schools and training centres should be connected to the Internet and that they should at the same time have appropriately trained staff to provide the training which young people leaving secondary education need. I also would also like to see everyone receiving professional training, whether they are unemployed or not, to be able to gain a kind of “driving licence” for the information society, which will enable them to operate computers and navigate the Internet.

In view of the fact that learning is most effective if begun in childhood at the most flexible and receptive stage of intellectual development, and seeking to encourage schoolchildren to learn foreign languages, it would be desirable to establish or develop early teaching of modern languages in primary schools.