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"Although Europe has around 19 million students and more than 4000 higher education institutions, currently only 26% of the workforce has high-level qualifications. Responsibility for higher education rests mainly with Member States and the higher education institutions themselves. They face a number of challenges at present. These include the question of graduate numbers, improving access to higher education, and adapting syllabuses to meet labour market requirements. This is one of the possibilities that would enable graduates to gain employment corresponding to the education they have acquired. Monitoring of professional employment and the availability of internationally comparable data on graduates can help higher education institutions to better fulfil their roles. In the context of the current economic crisis, it is important that higher education institutions continue to be well funded. It is pleasing that access to education is improving for people from all social backgrounds. In connection with this, however, schools must cope with an increase in the number of students and a varied student base. They frequently also adapt their teaching methods to students with different needs. I firmly believe that, in order to modernise higher education, it will be necessary to take steps so that Member States do not fall behind the higher education provided elsewhere in the world. European higher education must move forward if we are to maintain, or even improve, Europe’s global competitiveness."@en1
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