Permanent education in Europe
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 22 september 1970 (15th Sitting) (see Doc. 2817, report of the Committee on Culture and Education). Text adopted by the Assembly on 22 September 1970 (15th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Having regard to the report on permanent education in Europe by its Committee on Culture and Education ;
2. Considering that, if a system of permanent education is to be established in Europe, considerable efforts must first be made to approximate the educational systems of member States ;
3. Noting that there are already excellent reports on the state of education in each country ;
4. Considering that the growing access of women to professional and civic responsibilities gives new and heightened importance to the problem of education for both sexes ;
5. Believing that a comprehensive study should be made with a view to deducing the main principles for the reform of education in Europe ;
6. Stressing the need to encourage and promote educational research, particularly in the following three spheres :
a teaching methods ;
b pupil assessment ;
c mass media,
7. Instructs its Committee on Culture and Education to arrange a series of symposia on :
primary, secondary and technical education (basic education) ;
higher education and research ;
post-formal and recurrent education.
To these symposia would be invited persons with responsibility in educational matters.
