The third standard used in the EU Report on Education, submitted by the EU Commission, concerns graduates in mathematics, scientific and technological disciplines, whose number seems to have increased in the 27 EU member countries. In 2005, graduates in these areas amounted to about 850 thousand; by 2010, "if the current trend continues, they should be one million". Countries which have the highest number of people graduating in scientific subjects are Ireland, France and Lithuania. The number of adults attending lifelong learning schemes is instead too low. Then, the Report shows that young people aged 15 or less have an inadequate aptitude to reading. Then, the Report considers other indicators apart from the five basic criteria for assessing education within the EU. For example, language learning is considered "inadequate". Likewise, "the funding of educational systems" within the EU member countries seems to be "inadequate".
