Traduction de «Taux de rétention scolaire » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Regrets that the percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4 % and that 17.4 % of these have only completed primary school; notes that reducing early school leaving has been a target for the EU and Member States for many years but not sufficient progress has been made, with rates for early school leaving above 30 % in some Member States; notes the tremendous divergence in the percentage of early school leavers in the various Member States and the difficulty of drawing comparisons in terms of relevant contextual factors – such as migratory movements and levels of education in the family – between different r ...[+++]egions and Member States; points out that these children are most often from low-education backgrounds or socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and are more often boys than girls; calls therefore for a stronger commitment from Member States and for closer monitoring on the part of the Commission in order to make sure that Member States are creating and implementing strategies to reduce early school leaving; warns that the possible public spending cuts in the education sector on account of the economic crisis and the budgetary austerity policies being implemented in Member States will have adverse effects in that they will further increase the numbers of early school leavers in the EU;

76. Notes that a reduction in ESL to no more than 10 %, meeting the EU 2020 headline target, would have an effect in reducing youth unemployment and in improving the employment rate, since currently 52 % of school leavers are unemployed and, according to academic estimates, the number of jobs available for low-skilled or unskilled labour will decline even further in the coming years; points out that reducing the ESL rate by only 1 % could boost the number of qualified potential employees by 500 000;

5. Notes that a reduction to no more than 10 %, fulfilling the EU 2020 headline target would have an effect in reducing youth unemployment and in improving the employment rate, since currently 52 % of school leavers are unemployed and, according to academic estimations, the number of jobs available for low-skilled or unskilled labour will decline even further in the coming years; points out that reducing the early school leaving rate by only 1% could boost the number of qualified potential employees by 500 000;

60. Invites the Member States to focus first and foremost on the school dropout problem at primary and secondary level; considers that the EU school dropout rate of about 1 in 5 students is unacceptably high; calls on the Spring European Council to improve its previous commitments to reduce this rate by half by 2010; is concerned that the proposals launched by the Commission on the last Spring European Council to have specific targets to find jobs for early school-leavers will promote instead of reduce the school drop-out rate;

43. Invites the Member States to focus first and foremost on the school dropout problem at primary and secondary level; considers that EU school dropout rate of about 1 in 5 students is unacceptably high; calls on the Spring European Council to set ambitious targets to reduce this rate by half by 2010; is concerned that the proposals launched by the Commission for the next Spring European Council have specific targets to find jobs for school-leavers to reduce the school drop-out rate;

Another important program is the retention rate of children in high school.