HC Deb 16 June 1993 vol 226 c596W
Mr. Duncan

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the outcome of the Council of EC Education Ministers which met on Friday 11 June.

Mr. Boswell

The Council adopted a resolution on vocational education and training in the 1990s; the Council and the Ministers of Education meeting within the Council adopted conclusions on co-operation in higher education, agreed to extend by a year the mandate of a sub-committee of the Education Committee concerning long-term arrangements for the European Schools, exchanged views on the entry of all young people into working life and society, and discussed the Commission's guidelines for Community action in the field of education and training.