Holistic quality of education and lifelong learning in rural areas (with special emphasis in the recognition of Non-formal and Informal education)

Proponents of national broadband policy argue that online library databases, textbooks, and encyclopedias, have made the Internet a premier tool for education and lifelong learning.

Subsidiarity matters, especially in a field like education and lifelong learning, and we forget that at our peril.

To do this, we need more efficient tax systems, more investment in education and lifelong learning and, lastly, specific measures to address the skills gap.

I should like to highlight three of them: basic skills, investment and the European area of education and lifelong learning.

We will, therefore, be extending the issue of education and lifelong learning to encompass our future partners in the European Union.

The women in rural areas should benefit from enhanced access to education and lifelong learning, as well as to opportunities to reconcile family life with professional life.

It has therefore ensured that adequate financing is provided, particularly for research and technological development programmes, trans-European networks and improving the quality of education and lifelong learning.

In turn, the programme for education and lifelong learning helps to develop the Union as an advanced knowledge-based society in accordance with the objectives of the Lisbon strategy.

Indeed, the notion of education and lifelong learning is vital to the competitiveness of the knowledge-based economy.