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37/ 2010
Bonn, 16.09.2010
Decisions for the Future of Vocational Education and Training: BIBB presents its 2009/2010 Annual Report
How will vocational education and training develop in Germany? What measures and research projects are needed to shape future-oriented initial and continuing education and training in Germany, and what content did the work of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) focus on in the year under review? These questions are answered in the new 2009/2010 Annual Report. It provides information on the focus of the work and research of the Institute and gives insights into data, analyses and new research findings prepared by the BIBB. Says BIBB President Manfred Kremer: "With its studies and analyses, the BIBB as a centre of excellence for vocational education and training provides policy-makers with the basis for responding precisely to the urgent challenges in vocational education and training. The immediate practical application reference for vocational education policy is a trademark of BIBB research, its development work and its services. That is documented in concentrated form in the Annual Report."
The Training Market and Employment System chapter reflects a focal issue of the BIBB with its theme "Challenges relating to the School - Training - Work Transition". The BIBB research findings presented here show what factors contribute to a successful or unsuccessful search for an apprenticeship and what active steps companies can take to fill unoccupied training places more effectively.
Vocational Education and Training Quality Development includes BIBB activities to modernise the vocational education and training system. In the years 2009 and 2010, a total of 25 training occupations were redesigned or thoroughly revised. BIBB research projects have shown among other things how companies and trainees assess the quality of the dual system of vocational education and training in Germany.
In the Lifelong Learning chapter the realignment of vocational education and training to competence orientation and the development of standards for a German and its integration into a European qualification framework are in the foreground. The BIBB is also responsible for a pilot initiative to develop a credit system in vocational education and training with which learning results and competencies can be used and accredited more flexibly in order to enhance progression between education sectors in Germany.
The Vocational Education and Training for Specific Target Groups chapter shows the breadth of activities of the BIBB to improve the chances of young people of finding a training place through research and practical projects. Against the background of pronounced demographic changes and the simultaneous threat of a skilled labour shortage, potentials and "talent reserves" have to be better utilised and young people with a migration background as well as disadvantaged young people in particular have to be given more intensive support.
The BIBB has also further expanded its activities for the Internationalisation of Vocational Education and Training. Both the implementation of European initiatives such as credit systems and qualification frameworks and international system consultation are becoming more important. The dual system in Germany enjoys high prestige world-wide, and thus the consultative competence of the BIBB is in great demand outside Germany as well.
The 2009/2010 Annual Report can be downloaded free of charge from the BIBB website at www.bibb.de/jahresbericht.
The print edition is 79 pages long and can be ordered, likewise free of charge, from the
Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
Arbeitsbereich 1.2 - Kommunikation
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53142 Bonn
E-mail: vertrieb@bibb.de
Order No. 09.173
ISBN: 978-3-88555-885-9
