29/01/2016 Session
PACE called on member States today to improve their education systems and “ensure access to quality education and regular class attendance until the end of the study programme for all children”. In particular, the member States should identify priority education zones as well as groups at risk of exclusion, stressed the parliamentarians.
Backing the conclusions of the rapporteur on this question, Gvozden Srecko Flego (Croatia, SOC), PACE advocates supporting programmes that help children from minority and migrant communities to acquire adequate knowledge of the language of schooling. The parliamentarians also believe that governments should promote the inclusion of students from disadvantaged families and migrant backgrounds in high-profile schools in order to provide an equal opportunity to achieve.
Finally, the adopted text calls on the member States to provide adequate budgets for programmes promoting access to education for all, bearing in mind “not only the cost of investing in education, but also the risk of not doing so”.