Traduction de «Commission fédérale de la formation professionnelle » (Français → Anglais) :

44. Highlights the call from stakeholders to place greater emphasis on continuous professional development (CPD), including (life-long) formal, non-formal and informal learning, and on the need to assess it; points out that global competition and the orientation towards a knowledge-based economy are creating new challenges for skills development and education; calls on the Commission, therefore, to explore methods of documenting all education, perhaps via European Skill Passports and the European Qualifications Framework, as well as ...[+++] IMI, and to devise a comparability table of the various CPD systems existing in the Member States; calls further on the Commission to evaluate whether an appropriate solution to the varying levels of CPD for healthcare workers might be compensation measures; encourages the competent authorities to provide information on CPD during the recognition process, to exchange best practices in this area and to exchange information on CPD, especially in respect of those sectors and Member States in which it is mandatory;

(3) Council Resolution of 19 December 2002 on the promotion of enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training ("the Copenhagen process"), and the Joint Report of the Council and the Commission on the implementation of the Education and Training 2010 work programme adopted in 2004, stress the importance of a credit transfer system for vocational education and training, while the 2008 joint report of the Council and the Commission (document 5723/08) stresses the need to step up efforts to improve the quality and attr ...[+++]activeness of vocational education and training.

We have the GST flip-flop to start off with; the Airbus investigation; voting against the Red Book promises of an independent ethics commissioner; the gun registry, which has cost billions of dollars and was supposed to cost $2 million; problems with the Transition Job Funds program; the Radwanski affair, whose appointment I voted against, by the way; the Pearson airport fiasco; Irving fishing lodge stays and travel on Irving jets by ministers and MPs; Mr. Martin travelling on private corporate jets as Finance Minister; the sponsorship scandal, which is right before the country and before every citizen, including the RCMP invest ...[+++]igations of Communications Coffin and Groupaction, and the possible investigations of the Quebec wing of the federal Liberal Party; the Shawinigate affair; the Liberal fundraiser, Pierre Corbeil, charged with fraud by the RCMP after he approached several Quebec companies seeking federal job training grants and asking for payments to the Liberal Party; former minister Gagliano's son benefiting from contracts from his father's department; and Gagliano's former speechwriter, Michèle Tremblay, on a $5,000-a-month retainer with the Canada Lands Company to provide speeches for the minister.

Commission adopts a proposal for a directive on training of professional drivers for the transport of goods or passengers by road

3. Points out that there is perhaps a danger of overlap between the work of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation; recalls that the work of the European Training Foundation has been financed, to an important degree, through PHARE, TACIS and TEMPUS programmes; calls for the evaluation to assess the existing co-operation between the agencies and to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of a merger between the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation, takes the view, however, that before examining the possible merger of ...[+++]the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation, the Commission must first have at its disposal and study the conclusions and proposals of the external evaluation of both agencies, a procedure which is still underway;

The Commission's role in vocational training is enshrined in the EC's founding Treaty of Rome.