[PDF] Top 20 Progress towards the Lisbon objectives in education and training. Indicators and benchmarks 2009. Commission staff working document. SEC (2009) 1616 final, 23 November 2009

... general education was more prevalent, formal vocational certification was an important predictor of higher initial wages for both high and low quality school ...vocational training results in higher initial ... See full document

... of education in terms of earnings of individuals, their skills and employability as a result of ...the education system such as teacher-student ratios, average instruction time, ...of education ... See full document

... vocational education on the long-term wages (suggesting equal gains from an extra year in vocational school as from an extra year of work experience (Oosterbeek ...formal education which are estimated at ... See full document

... work-based training schemes are seen as an efficient tool to ensure labour market relevance and, therefore, new apprenticeship schemes are increasingly being established in the countries with no work-based ... 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

... 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

... higher education governance is being facilitated in the context of quality enhancement and the democratisation of ...general education is also a ...comparative indicators while advancing the ... 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 ...The Commission believes that rankings should ... 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

... The USA has had a longer tradition of and a more comprehensive approach to the measurement of dropouts using more types of dropout rates. Status dropout rate is a cumulative rate that estimates the proportion of young ... See full document

... at Lisbon and at subsequent Councils accorded a central role to indicators and benchmarks within the open method of co-ordination ...(OMC). Indicators have several ...OMC, indicators ... See full document

... Egyptian progress towards the ACAA ...Further progress is required in accreditation, metrology, conformity assessment procedures and post-market surveillance ... See full document

... the Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of the UK-based Reuters Group by the Canadian Thomson Corporation, subject to conditions and obligations 234 ...the Commission concluded that the proposed ... See full document

... “Vocational Training and Retraining” programme to enhance professional skills and help the unemployed to meet the changing requirements of the labour ...employment, training and equal ... See full document

... Certain steps were undertaken with regard to training of staff and further strengthening of environmental monitoring capacities. However, strengthening of administrative capacity at all levels of the ... See full document

... inter-ministerial commission on implementation of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters met for the first time in ... See full document

... significant progress in ratifying and signing outstanding Protocols to the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean 2 ...European ... See full document

... Moldova remains a partner having made substantive progress in governance and reform over the last years. Overall, during the reporting period, Moldova made progress in most areas of the ENP Action Plan. ... See full document

... Regarding sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS), the ENP partners made some progress. There is a need to sustain efforts in the coming years. Armenia strengthened institutions and laboratories and prepared a draft ... See full document

... No progress can be reported in the fields of pension reforms and social security ...European Commission organised a forum on social policies in April 2008, bringing together representatives of all Lebanese ... See full document