Translation of "conseiller en éducation permanente " (French → English) :

21. Stresses the need for an ongoing two-way educational process for both sides, that is to say financial advisors and consumers, so as to ensure the provision of accurate information in step with the most recent developments in the financial services sector;

Even taking the arguments of the rapporteur that education influences economic growth by ‘increasing human capital and innovative capability’, and taking the view that by increasing the effectiveness of education and training, individuals and society as a whole can obtain a return on their investment of up to 8% per annum, we can see what countries stand to lose if they do not invest decisively in further education which is accessible to all sections of the population.

The ‘natural’ reasons limiting women’s access to higher education, to academic qualifications and to life-long learning include being a mother and having a family.

29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in the context of employment policy, to offer women greater incentives to join the labour market and become economically independent at all stages of their lives; draws attention in this connection to the target set by the Lisbon European Council in 2001of raising the number of women in employment to 60% by 2010; this policy should also tackle the causes of the earnings differentials between men and women which have an impact on invalidity and old-age pension levels; believes that this can be achieved by, inter alia, offering girls and women a wider range of professional choices and by guaranteeing life-long education and vocat ...[+++]ional training at all stages of their lives, particularly for women returning to work after a period spent devoting themselves to family duties; emphasises that, amongst other instruments, the European Social Fund should be used for this purpose;

In Denmark, we have had a distinguished tradition of lifelong learning since the nineteenth century, and it is precisely the poet, priest and co-author of the Danish constitution, N.F.S. Grundtvig, who stands out as one of the founders of the entire folk high school movement in Denmark, a movement which helped educate ordinary people at a time when this was unusual.

Also opposed is the Saskatchewan Interagency Council on Smoking and Health which includes all the following agencies: Allergy Foundation of Canada; City of Regina Health Department; Community Health and Epidemiology Department of the University of Saskatchewan, Continuing Medical Education, Continuing Nursing Education; Manitoba and Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists; Saskatchewan Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission; Saskatchewan Education; Saskatchewan Health; Saskatchewan Health Care Association; Saskatchewan Institute on the Prevention of Handicaps; Saskatchewan Medical Association; Saskatchewan Pharmaceutic ...[+++]al Association; Saskatchewan Public Health Association; Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association; Saskatoon Community Health Clinic; University of Saskatchewan; Canadian Cancer Society, Saskatchewan division; Heart and Stroke Foundation of Saskatchewan Inc.; and Saskatchewan Lung Association.