Brussels, 14/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament (EP) education and culture committee adopted the report by Jean-Marie Cavada (EPP, France) on Thursday 14 July on the European Schools, which are excellent transmitters of European values. “With this report, the European Schools recover the full point of their being: representing a real investment for the future of young Europeans”, Cavada said. The European Schools were set up initially to ensure that the children of European institution employees who had to live in a cultural environment different from that of their country of origin could be educated in their mother tongue. This was so that the children could transfer at any time to a school in their country of origin if their parents returned home. Fifty years on, however, this concept has had to evolve and to adapt to new economic and societal demands. It was around these two angles that the report was drafted. It highlights, in the first instance, that the European education model should be exported to national systems, both by developing Schools that can take in children whose parents are not employed by the European institutions and creating new Schools on the initiative of member states, and also by integrating into national schools concepts borrowed from the European Schools. Furthermore, the report calls for the European Baccalauréat to be recognised by all member states and notes that holders of this qualification should be able to gain admittance to any university in the European Union. The report calls for a review of the funding model for the European Schools to lighten the load on certain member states in this period of crisis, proposing, for example, the use of non-first languages for non-basic subjects. (I.L./transl.rt)