Proportion of training contracts prematurely dissolved remains at a high level

Alexandra Uhly

The stability of training contracts can be viewed as an indicator of the efficiency and effectiveness of the dual system of vocational education and training. Although training contracts dissolved before the end of the contractually agreed duration of training (referred to in abbreviated form as  dissolved contracts) cannot be completely avoided and also make sense in some cases, they usually at least involve a loss of resources and may at worst mean an exit from participation in training. Selected occupations are presented on the basis of VET statistics below.

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Gabriele Marchl, Helmut Ernst

The aim of the main funding focus "New routes into dual training - heterogeneity as an opportunity to secure the supply of skilled workers" is to develop and foster innovative pathways into training. This seizes the increasing degree of heterogeneity which young people display both as a challenge and as an opportunity. The thrust is on developing and implementing transferable concepts, instruments and methods in order to expand the potential number of trainees and to secure the skilled worker requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's) in particular.

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Collective wage agreement based regulation for the funding of continuing vocational training in the scaffolding sector

Klaus Berger; Dick Moraal; Dr. Stefan Häusele

Collective wage agreement based regulation of continuing vocational training has been established across a wide range of major sectors over recent years. Only a few of these collective wage agreements have a fund system in place to involve all member companies in the financing of continuing training, thus enabling the training of skilled workers to be addressed as a challenge for the branch as a whole rather than any more as a problem facing a single company. The present article takes the Social Fund in the scaffolding sector as an example in presenting sample regulation, current implementation practice and the potential which training funds based on collective wage agreements have to offer.

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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hubert Esser, President of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

The agreement concluded on 31 January 2012 between the Federal Government, the German Länder and industrial and social partners on the introduction of the German national qualifications framework (Deutscher Qualifikationsrahmen, DQR) is an important milestone for vocational education and training in Germany.

Commentary of BIBB President Friedrich Hubert Esser

BWP 2/2012 - Language and work

Communication at work is becoming increasingly significant in a service society. At the same time, companies are complaining ever more frequently about the lack of language and communication competences displayed by apprentice and job applicants. What is the nature of the role played by language in vocational training and at the workplace? The papers contained within the present issue address this question as well as dealing with the importance of language for the development of employability skills, with provision and concepts for language learning and with the significance of foreign language competence in a world of work which is becoming increasingly globalised.

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Germany and the United States deepen cooperation in vocational education

BIBB President Friedrich Hubert Esser promoted the German dual system of vocational training at a conference at the Aspen Institute in Washington DC."In the USA, the manufacturing industry in particular is greatly interested in company-integrated, customer-oriented vocational education and training following the German model."

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Increasing international interest in the dual system

In his opening address to the UNESCO International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training, which took place in Shanghai from 13 to 16 May 2012, BIBB Director of Research Professor Reinhold Weiß highlighted the challenges to vocational education and training posed by demographic change.

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ASEM Symposium on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ASEM TVET Symposium)

Jan Ebben

Germany hosted the ASEM 1-TVET Symposium on national qualification frameworks.The symposium offered a comparative Asian-European perspective, and explored the development of NQFs between the conflicting demands of education and employment.

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Workshop for structuring future Vietnamese National TVET Report

Hans Joachim Kissling

At a workshop held in Hanoi on 10 and 11 April 2012, more than 30 Vietnamese experts from the Institute for Vocational Training Research (NIVT), assisted by experts from BIBB and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), discussed the structure of a national TVET report in a number of working groups.

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