EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT
The position of the EU and the Council of Europe
By Chrysis Michaelides
The European Social Forum Cyprus (ESFC) as a member of the “CIVIC FORUM” of the Council of Europe actively participated in its last meeting in Strasburg where representatives from 47 countries were present. They reached the following conclusion:
Every member state, promoting further the RIGHT for EDUCATION as it is provided by the Lisbon Declaration (2007), is obliged to promote the training of all the youth and children in various ways, such as:
- To directly incorporate all students and there lessons in a unified school educational program.
- To train the instructors and to directly incorporate them in the educational programs.
- To train the parents, so that they can efficiently cooperate with the school units.
- To promote immediate collaboration between School Units and extra-school organized groups.
Given that all this can not be done unilaterally by the state, but only through the cooperation of the State with the Society (the active citizen) and its representatives, which are the Non Government Organizations (NGOs), through co operations such as the Method of Open Coordination, which demands an open dialog of all decision makers (the State and Local Self Government), with the ACTIVE CITIZEN who will participate in these decisions. So such a program always based on Human Rights and particularly the right for Education and the Cypriot law of "Special Training and Education", a meeting of the European Office for development and Special Education (
www.european-agency.org) took place in Lemesos on 23 and 24 of October. The purpose of the meeting was to demand from all member states of the EU, with the involvement and help from the Minister of Education and Civilization, Mr. Andreas Demetriou, to promote the principle of COEDUCATION and ASSESSMENTS in school units both through the preparation of a school program. It also aimed at gaining the support from ALL students, but also to be a measurement of the efficiency of the system and the educators themselves.
Everybody came to the conclusion that only an educator who knows and respects Human Rights can put the program into action in the benefit of ALL children, the EUROPEAN ACTIVE CITIZENS of to morrow.
By transferring this problem on the political will of the executive authorities of the member states, it will first be necessary to train future teachers during their university studies, through a well organized training program, which can be VOLUNTARY or even OBLIGATORY.
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