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Young people - Tomorrow's skilled workers!
This issue of BWP examines various aspects of the current debate on skilled workers: For example, the question of how the need for skilled workers is changing within the context of labour market trends and demographic developments, whether and how this demand is affecting enterprises' willingness to provide training and which trends are discernable in young people's training patterns and their transition to the working world.
In the BWP Interview, the director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Professor Joachim Möller, assesses the debate on skilled workers and calls for making greater efforts in education to counter the shortage of skilled workers.
Professor Reinhold Weiß, head of research at BIBB, dedicates the Commentary to transitions from the vocational training sector to the tertiary education sector. With regard to ensuring greater permeability, Professor Weiß sees a need for action to create greater transparency in connection with access to tertiary eduction, increase the number of university programmes that can be pursued while continuing to work, and improve guidance and assistance.
Other subjects covered in this issue include quality development in in-company vocational training, part-time training, and procedures and quality standards for assessing and developing competences.
