Brussels, 22/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 19 November, the Council adopted conclusions appealing for the improvement of basic skills as part of European cooperation in the field of education in the 21st century. The Council rather alarmingly pointed out that although the strategic European cooperation framework for education and occasional training had set out five new benchmarks in 2003, with regard to the acquisition of basic skills for pupils up to 2020, only one target had...