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17/ 2012
Bonn, 17.04.2012
BIBB launches new vocational orientation website
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) has redesigned its vocational orientation website. The core elements of the relaunch are aimed at delivering an online presence which is more modern and more user friendly, which offers expanded information in a restructured form and which gives education and training providers an opportunity to exchange views. The Internet site will also be operating under a new address and is available at www.berufsorientierungsprogramm.de with immediate effect. The revised provision includes comprehensive information on the programme "Supporting vocational orientation in inter-company vocational training centres and comparable VET centres" (BOP), which is being implemented by BIBB on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The new website reflects the huge increase in interest in the BOP Programme over recent years. For this reason, it is primarily directed at existing and potential training providers implementing BIBB funded vocational orientation measures with young people on the ground. The new portal:
- provides information on the legal principles governing vocational orientation and on formalities which need to be observed for applications and selection procedures as well as assisting applicants via the provision of a convenient online tool;
- offers a "project map" to give an opportunity to exchange views and network with other providers in the same region;
- supports the transfer of results via examples of "good practice" and
- aids training providers by including a summary of services available from BIBB in the form of events, publications and information materials.
The BOP Programme has achieved an impressive degree of success thus far. Since 2008, BIBB has authorised funding of around €150 million to more than 400 providers. This has enabled in excess of 350,000 pupils from lower and intermediate secondary schools to access the programme.
The core elements of the programme are analyses of pupil potential, which usually take place in the second half of Year 7, and day workshops staged during the course of Year 8. The analyses of potential provide an initial indication of pupils' strengths, predispositions and competences. During the two-week practical phase of the programme, which takes place in inter-company vocational training centres and comparable training centres and is led by professional training staff, the boys and girls are then afforded an opportunity to experience a taste of the real world of work by gaining practical experience of at least three occupational fields.
Alongside the special career entry support programme, the BOP Programme forms a central component of the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) initiative "Qualification and connection - educational chains until the completion of training". The BMBF educational chains initiative bundles together new funding instruments with existing Federal Government and federal state programmes. The aims are to provide young people with efficient support whilst they are still at school, improve the transition from school to employment and avoid waiting loops within the "transitional system".
For further information, please visit www.berufsorientierungsprogramm.de
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