Traduction de «directrice d'école professionnelle privée » (Français → Anglais) :

Expand and improve investment in human capital through: the establishment of efficient lifelong learning strategies, according to European commitments, including appropriate incentives and cost-sharing mechanisms for enterprises, public authorities and individuals, in particular to significantly reduce the number of pupils leaving school early; increased access to initial vocational, secondary and higher education, including apprenticeships and entrepreneurship training ; and enhanced participation in continuous and workplace training throughout the life-cycle, especially for the low-skilled and older workers (Integrated guideline No 22). ...[+++]

The Integrated Guidelines invite Member States to take action for achieving better reconciliation of family and working life. A better family and work balance can also help to tackle the problems associated with demographic ageing, and in particular the challenge of a low birth rate. This includes the provision of childcare facilities, as well as care for other dependants. Particular attention will be paid to developing innovative, family-friendly forms of working arrangements. Reconciliation of work and private life is key in promoti ...[+++]ng gender equality for young women and men.

The proposed Integrated Guidelines underline the need for Europe to expand and improve investment in human capital, and to adapt education and training systems to new competence requirements. Priority is given, inter alia , to reducing the number of early school leavers; widening access to vocational, secondary and higher education, including apprenticeships and entrepreneurship training; and working towards common frameworks that will make qualification systems more transparent, and validating non-formal and informal learning.

The Guidelines also highlight that attention needs to be given to reconciling work and family life and more in particular to the extension of childcare provision.

This revision also represents an opportunity to adjust the employment guidelines in other ways, for example through changes related to other policy initiatives such as a work-life balance initiative.

Mr. Thomas Townsend: When we are talking about high default rates, one of the factors that lenders have indicated is a cause of concern for them and that has been factored into the refusal of the Bank of Commerce to renew its agreement in Nova Scotia has been the increasing number of individuals using private vocational institutions as a way of gaining post-secondary education.