Traducción de «Movilidad escolar » (Español → Inglés) :

EUROVOC descriptor: vocational training young person free movement of persons geographical mobility student mobility access to information youth policy education

mobility, such as exchanges of pupils and staff, school mobility, training courses for teachers, etc..

the advantages of using the open method of coordination and of sharing best practices in this context; the need to involve young people in the decision procedure, for those decisions which concern them; the need to integrate young people into the labour market, providing targeted training for early school leavers or integrating them, as a transitional measure between school and work, in voluntary civic services; the need to help young people to reconcile private and professional lives; the advantages of ensuring mobility for young people, not only to improve their employment prospects, but also to bring them into contact with differe ...[+++]nt cultures and engender the feeling of being European.

The following measures could improve the quality of language visits: - ensuring that pupils receive adequate background preparation for their language visits, that the visits comprise an assessment element and that they last at least two weeks in secondary education; - encouraging schools to incorporate language visits into an educational project involving the wider school community, so that pupils who remain behind can also benefit from the scheme, during the phase of preparation, as well as when pupils return from their visits and when pupils are on a visit to the school; - using every opportunity within individual education systems to bring together pupils and teachers from Member States, for example during residential classes away fro ...[+++]m the school base (winter sports, seaside and countryside activities, etc.); - stepping up language preparation for students taking part in exchange or mobility programmes.

To this end, Mrs Cresson proposed the implementation of three ideas for young people: - to encourage mobility in education and training, particularly through the general recognition of academic qualifications in higher education, the development of European modules (language + subject) and master's degrees and the promotion of learning at European level; - to support integration and combat academic failure by developing "second- chance schools" for young people who have not succeeded in the traditional school system; - to develop a European citizens' service; this would involve young people directly (for a period of between six months ...[+++] and one year) in activities of general interest meeting social needs.

Centred on schools (there are more than 300 000 pre-school, primary and secondary education establishments in the Community), which are one of the main places for exchanges and contacts between the various people involved in education, and implemented by means of projects and transnational cooperation networks, Community measures in the field of education could be based on the following points: - encouraging cooperation between education establishments by means of, for example, mobility and exchanges of young people, providing them with the opportunity to encounter different environments; - making teachers and other people involved in e ...[+++]ducation more aware of the European dimension in education during their training and, to this end, encouraging cooperation and exchanges between training institutes in different Member States; - developing language teaching, thereby increasing mobility vis-à-vis other countries and the possibility of communicating with other cultures, strengthening Community action to this end on the basis of experience acquired through the Lingua programme, and encouraging the development of teaching materials; - encouraging greater exploitation of the possibilities offered by distance education and multimedia systems to help young people adapt to occupational developments or, where necessary, retraining, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge; - promoting educational innovations and their dissemination by encouraging the establishment at European level of networks of researchers into education and training requirements and methodologies; provisions to this end are set out in the proposal for the fourth framework programme of Community activities in the field of research and technological development; - strengthening exchanges of information and experience relating to the education systems and methodologies of Member States, their reforms and innovations, and thereby profiting from the considerable knowledge acquired through the work of the ...