it recommends additional measures to improve participation rates encouraging strong teachers to work in the schools with highest needs and providing teachers with the tools to help those pupils most at risk of disengagement and dropout it recommends measures to modernise programmes of study and qualifications supporting teachers in implementing the new curriculum while reforming certification arrangements for the bachillerato to realise a more inclusive system finally it recommends measures to strengthen and expand vocational education and training establishing technical schools as specialised centres of vocational and professional training and developing shorter professional programmes to be undertaken in the specialised centres