Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Tasks and responsibilities:

Examinations and certifications in vocational education and training

• Early recognition of trends which could lead to new examination methods and strategies, development of strategies conforming with the field of practice and testing in pilot projects
• Analysis of the quality, authority and validity of certification systems in initial and continuing vocational education and training, drafting of recommendations to secure/optimise these systems
• Ongoing documentation and evaluation of new forms of examinations in initial and continuing vocational training regulations, analysis of the impact of new examination strategies on the field of vocational education and training practice
• Support for new developments aimed at recording and certifying formally and informally acquired qualifications, conceptual involvement in the establishment of accreditation systems and certificates which can be used in the labour market
• General issues relating to examination regulations in initial and continuing vocational education and training

Structural issues, quality standards and quality assurance

• Procedural questions in regulatory work: continuous updating of the "guidelines" (short version), migration of the long version of the guidelines to a glossary and continuous upkeep of the glossary, management of an A 4 internal inter-section working group for "Basic Procedural Issues", editing of legal ordinances
• Further development of methodological tools, in particular to specify qualification needs and to evaluate vocational education and studies programmes
• Quality assurance and quality assurance tools in initial and continuing vocational education and training
• Drafting of explanatory notes for the series NEU / cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Economics Publishing House, statistics, graphics and charts in initial and continuing vocational education and training

Budget (internal departmental service function)

• Budgetary planning, financial administration for department 4
• Settlement of travel expenses for experts within the framework of projects

Head of section

Irmgard Frank

tel.: (0228) 107 - 1624
fax: (0228) 107 - 2965
e-mail: frank [AT] bibb.de

Representative

Andreas Stöhr

tel.: (0228) 107 - 2529
fax: (0228) 107 - 2979
e-mail: stoehr [AT] bibb.de

Last modified on: November 22, 2006