[PDF] Top 20 Progress towards the Lisbon objectives in education and training. Indicators and benchmarks 2008. SEC (2008) 2293 final, 20 July 2008

... the training expenditures of European employers are reported between 60 Euro per employee in Latvia and 993 in Denmark (in Purchasing Power ...of training when training is firm-specific and/or ... See full document

... At present only limited data are available on ICT competences amongst adults at European level. Thus, the current way of measuring adults' ICT skills refer more to actual use than to competences. In terms of monitoring ... See full document

... apprenticeship training on long-term employment outcomes and on post-apprenticeship wages are however more ...school-based education at the same level of training and across different qualification ... See full document

... pre-primary education has a positive impact on performance during compulsory schooling, in particular for children coming from socio-economically disadvantaged family ...pre-primary education in Belgium, ... See full document

... the Lisbon conclusions are the only legitimisation in other policy ...or objectives in a given policy ...agreed objectives or outcomes. The full use of indicators and benchmarks is ... See full document

... The IEA SITES study (Law et al., 2008) investigates to what extent and how ICT is used in education and how it supports and enhances teaching practice. Nine Member States participated in the study along ... See full document

... Higher Education (THE) have clear limitations, as they focus on research performance only and do not cover the full diversity of university types and their ...higher education institutions on the basis of a ... See full document

... received education or training in the four weeks preceding the ...standard education variables in the LFS, which are expected to improve the quality of indicators since they make it possible ... See full document

... The USA has a longer tradition of and more comprehensive approach to measuring dropouts using several types of rate. The “status dropout” rate is a cumulative rate that estimates the proportion of young adults aged 16 ... See full document

... academic education, but less specific preparation for the labour market, and therefore there is a higher need of an additional more specific training (lifelong learning) after their initial formal ... See full document

... In order to secure the provision and quality of data for the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning the Commission has proposed a regulation. 41 This framework regulation sets ... See full document

... the 2008 Eurobarometer, 75% of the traders who do not currently sell cross border, almost half indicated that they would start doing it if regulations were ... See full document

... points towards less developed financial systems in the ...Grilo, 2008); it is however possible that existing entrepreneurs be held back from furthering expanding their business due to financing constraints ... See full document

... Local democratic governance: decision-making and implementation process of public policy that, around local governments (elected in contexts of decentralisation), encourages an equal participation of all stakeholders of ... See full document

... By the end of 2007, 20 of the 27 Member States had on-going co-operation activities in the field of Aid for Trade. Romania has for the first time contributed to the WTO DDA Global Trust Fund and three Member ... See full document

... Vocational Training (CVT) is defined as training measures and activities, which the enterprise finances, partially or entirely, for their employees who have a working ...providing training or ... See full document

... oriented towards investment, underlining also the point that fiscal consolidation based on investment cuts, as evidenced in some periods in some Member States, can be problematic in the long ...(through ... See full document

... In the discussions about ex-post approaches to mitigate the negative effects of exogenous shocks, compensatory finance has always taken a prominent position. The EC's Stabex and Sysmin instruments, applied earlier, and ... See full document

... who progress through the 2+1+1 education route: this route allows students who complete a two year certificate course (level 6) to move on to a one year ordinary bachelor degree (level 7) and then to spend ... See full document

... June 2008 Communication, integration of immigrants into the labour market remains a major ...the 2008 Spring European Council request for a comprehensive assessment of future skills needs up to 2020, the ... See full document