Interim evaluation of the Training place programme for eastern Germany 2002
Klaus Berger, Uta Braun, Klaus Schöngen
URN: urn:nbn:de:0035-0132-9
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training has been charged by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with evaluating the Training place programmes for eastern Germany for the years 2002 to 2004 with the aim of "allowing a more precise overview of the progress made in restructuring the Programmes". 01 For that purpose, the participating Federal states have been providing the BIBB with data on the attendance structure and attendance tendencies in the Training place programmes every six months, beginning in February 2003. The data structure is based on a list of indicators drawn up within the framework of the monitoring of ESF incentive measures.
Up until 1 February 2003 the Federal states reported a total of 16,452 persons 02 entering the Training place programme for eastern Germany 2002. A total of 12,393 programme participants (75%) were placed in in-company training with apprenticeship contracts and another 4,059 were placed in school training.
Who receives support?
For the most part, those who entered the Programme were unplaced applicants with an intermediate education certificate (55%) and those with a CSE (29%). A mere 11% had university entrance qualifications, although in some cases, as in the Free State of Saxony, such applicants are ruled out as recipients of support.
Fifty-seven per cent of the participants were known to have gone directly from school to the Programme. In the case of in-company training, more than one participant in two (53%) entered the training scheme directly from school. Almost one in ten of the in-company Programme participants (9%) had already gone through a vocational preparation scheme before entering the Programme; a similarly high proportion had been unemployed. The majority of those in the Programme's school training places (70%) entered the Programme directly from school.
Range of occupations supported
Training is provided within the Training place programme for eastern Germany 2002 in about 210 03 of the total of 350 recognised training occupations, and in a few cases in occupations based on a Federal or state arrangement as well. The diagram shows the ten most frequently chosen occupations.
The ten most frequently chosen occupations in the Training place programme for eastern Germany 2002 (share in per cent)
One participant in five in the ten most frequently chosen occupations goes through a course of school training that ends with an external Chamber examination corresponding to the BBiG.
New occupations
The occupations learned by 8.4% of the participants have been newly introduced or radically revised since 1996. More than one male participant in ten (11%), but only one female participant in twenty (5.5%) is trained in such occupations.
Is training being provided in the right occupations?
The labour market prospects of graduates in the hotel and restaurant occupations and office occupations are rather good. This is indicated by the development of employment in such occupations between 1999 and 2003 and the age and qualification structure of those employed there. The prospects are less good for graduates in the occupations painter and varnisher, joiner, and bricklayer. Twelve per cent of the male participants are trained in those occupations. All in all, however, the agreed goal of offering no more than 10% of the contingent of places in the building trades was attained.
Indications of company entrainment effects
High rates of support 04 can be an indication of company entrainment effects. In the occupations with the highest attendance the rates of support were below the acceptability level of 20% with reference to the entire area of support. At the Federal state level, however, the in-company component of the Programme led to higher rates of support in some occupations. These included the occupations of construction finishing worker (37%), skilled hotel and restaurant worker (29%) and office communication clerk (26%). High rates of support in new occupations are an indication that the Programme is used here to provide incentives for training in future-oriented occupations.
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