According to MEPs, the second-chance schools and compulsory schooling until the age of 18 throughout the EU, could help reduce the rate of school drop-out. Moreover, they ask in a resolution approved at the plenary to establish a varied curriculum, combining general instruction and vocational training (internships, visits to firms).

MEPs adopted a resolution in plenary session in which they recommends compulsory schooling until the age of 18 throughout the EU and second-chance schools to cut drop-outs rates. The resolution takes up the goal of the EU 2020 growth strategy which seeks to bring the school drop-out rate down to below 10%. MEPs underline the importance of these measures for economic growth and economic and social stability in the EU.

In addition, the European Parliament asks to the Members States to establish a varied curriculum, combining general instruction and vocational training (internships, visits to firms). They support partnerships between schools and local firms, like the ones that already exist in Spain. Actually, in August 2011 the Council issued a Recommendation on policies to reduce early school leaving.

MEPs underlines in the text that it takes up the goal of the EU 2020 growth strategy which seeks to bring the school drop-out rate down to below 10%. MEPs underline the importance of these measures for economic growth and economic and social stability in the EU. Cutting the rate by just 1% would mean 500,000 additional young skilled workers for the European economy each year.