Commissison Expert Group Basic Skills/Key Competencies

Basic Skills, foreign language teaching, entrepreneurship

Representative of EAEA: Toms Urdze e-mail:mailto:toms2000@parks.lv
Team members: Vida Mohorcic Spolar, Rosa Maria Falgàs i Casanova

 

I. Work documents of the block ( background information)

1. Basic documents (Word file)

2. Draft Interim Report on working group B ( December, 2002) ( Word file)
3. Key competencies (appendix)
4. Benchmark Acte 029 (Word file)
5. Beyond Rhetoric (PDF file)
6. debate: http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=PRES/03/27|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display=
   and look for: A Europe of knowledge and BENCHMARKS IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Links and other background materials :

1. Key Competencies - A developing concept in general compulsory education,
   The information network on education in Europe , ISBN 2-87116-346-4, Eurydice, 2002 (pdf file)
2. Final report of the expert group "Best procedure" project on education and training for entrepreneurship . (November, 2002.) (Word file) Presented by Mr. Simone Baldassari, Enterprise DG.
3. Education and Training for Entrepreneurship. DG Enterprise of the Commission.
   http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/entrepreneurship/support_measures/index.htm
   More: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/entrepreneurship/index.htm

Minimum vocabulary of the theme: (From knowledge to competence, concept of key competencies, concept of literacy, reading literacy, mathematical literacy, generic skills, social and interpersonal competencies, assessment of key competencies, concept of benchmark from the EU, OECD etc. can be found in the Eurydice survey publication mentioned above.)

Links to other relevant background materials suggested by the DG EAC:

Basic skills working group meeting 21/01/2003

Reference:

Detailed work programme on the follow-up of the objectives of education and training systems in Europe
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/keydoc.html

Making a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/life/index.html

European Report on Quality Indicators of Lifelong Learning
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/life/15indicators_en.pdf

Education and Training for Entrepreneurship. DG Enterprise of the Commission.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/entrepreneurship/support_measures/index.htm

Other relevant reference documents available on Internet:

High-Level Task Force on Skills and Mobility
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2002/feb/ap_en.html

Commission's Action Plan for Skills and Mobility
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2002/feb/ap_en.html

The Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo)
http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber15/deseco

DEFINITION AND SELECTION OF COMPETENCIES: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS (DeSeCo): STRATEGY PAPER ON KEY COMPETENCIES
An overarching frame of reference for an assessment and research program
Recommendations to the OECD Education Committee, the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee and the Governing Board of CERI from the DeSeCo Steering Group .
WORD file

ASEM Lifelong Learning
http://www.asia-europe-institute.org/ASEM-LifeLong-Learning/lllcontent.htm

PISA survey
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/

International Adult Literacy Survey
http://www.nald.ca/nls/ials/INTRODUC.HTM

ALL, The Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/all/

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
http://www.iea.nl/Home/home.html

TIMSS 2003, Third International Mathematics and Science Study at the Eighth Grade
http://timss.bc.edu/timss1999.html