Traduction de «niveau d'enseignement » (Français → Anglais) :

‘higher education institution’ means any type of higher education institution recognised or considered as such in accordance with national law which, in accordance with national law or practice, offers recognised higher education degrees or other recognised tertiary level qualifications, whatever such establishments may be called, or any institution which, in accordance with national law or practice, offers vocational education or training at tertiary level.

Women were largely predominant in the early stages of education, representing 95% of all teachers at pre-primary education level and 85% at primary level.

The International Standard Classification of Education (I S C E D 1997) covers the following levels: level 0 - pre-primary education; level 1 - primary education or first stage of basic education; level 2 - lower secondary or second stage of basic education; level 3 - (upper) secondary education; level 4 - post-secondary non-tertiary education; level 5 - first stage of tertiary education; level 6 - second stage of tertiary education.

II. Diversifying the learning and teaching of the languages of the European Union - In view of the developments that have taken place and the progress that has been made over the last ten years in the teaching of languages in all the Member States of the Union, pupils should as a general rule have the opportunity of learning two languages of the Union other than their mother tongue(s) for a minimum of two consecutive years during compulsory schooling and if possible for a longer period; the aim of such teaching, going beyond introductory tuition, is the acquisition of clearly defined skills; it is for each Member State to specify those language skills and to determine the different levels of competence required and the appropriate forms of c ...[+++]ertifying achievement; - the provision of teaching for languages which are less widely used or less frequently taught should be increased and diversified as far as possible, at all levels of teaching and throughout all types of curricula; - in view of the difficulties in the way of such diversification, it will be necessary to use all the opportunities offered by open and distance teaching and the new technologies; schemes to develop and disseminate these teaching and learning tools should receive special attention at Community level.

During the past decades the open and distance teaching universities in Europe made a considerable contribution to the widening of access to higher education, on initial level as well as for continuing education and training.

More specifically, thanks to the scope for cooperation provided by the Erasmus programme since 1987 and Action II under the Lingua programme since 1990, 2 200 inter-university cooperation programmes involving 1 300 higher-education establishments and 14 000 partnerships have resulted in: * mobility for more than 200 000 students and 15 000 teachers; * design of 700 intensive programmes and 800 common curricula; * 145 higher-education establishments have participated in a pilot project to introduce the ECTS (European Community course credit transfer system), intended to facilitate the academic recognition of studies abroad; * 20 000 teachers and administrators from higher-education establishments or NARIC centres have taken part in study ...[+++]visits to other Member States; * 100 teachers' associations and 30 students' associations have been set up with encouragement from the Erasmus programme, covering a broad span of subjects and activities at European level.