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The Report on Vocational Education and Training and the BIBB Data Report

Michael Friedrich, Elisabeth M. Krekel

Margit Ebbinghaus

Holger Alda

Barbara Lorig, Markus Bretschneider

Manfred Kremer - President of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn

Money plays a role!
Are trainees satisfied with their pay?

Ursula Beicht, Andreas Krewerth

Bi-National Expert Workshop "Globally Competitive and Sustainable Qualifications in VET"
Volker Rein
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the US Department of Education (ED) have agreed to intensify their cooperation in education. As a first step, both partners started with a bi-national expert workshop on "Globally Competitive and Sustainable Qualifications in Vocational Education and Training", in Bonn May 4. to 6 facilitated by BIBB.
http://www.bibb.de/en/55124.htm

iMOVE Seminar: British and German Export of Education and Training
On 29 and 30 April 2010 iMOVE held the first British-German seminar on export of education and training.
http://www.bibb.de/en/26172.htm

Memorandum of understanding between BIBB and KRIVET
Michael Härtel
As part of the activities to mark BIBB's 40th anniversary, the president of BIBB and the president of the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training (KRIVET) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
http://www.bibb.de/en/55110.htm

2010 08 25 - 28 | Helsinki
European Conference on Educational Research: Education and Cultural Change
Education and cultural change Cultural change has emerged as an important issue in most European countries due to increased migration. With regard to education in Europe, culture is often perceived as referring mostly to ethnicity, religion and language, though cultural diversity also refers to race, gender, class, age, ability and sexual orientation. Changes in the cultural contexts where education takes place have raised new questions both in educational practice and research. Thinking of students in terms of traditional categories of race, class and gender declines in usefulness; instead the intersection of categories as well as consideration of local and global contexts needs to be taken into account. In addition, alongside formal schooling, other domains of activity such as youth and popular cultures, extra-curricular activities, as well as social, environmental and religious movement are vital in understanding cultural changes and their significance to education. The theme brings to the forefront the view that educational institutions need to take cultural contexts into consideration in their policies and activities. It emphasizes how cultural changes impact the way children, adolescents and adults are educated in both formal and informal education.

22 September 2010 | Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn
DEQA-VET kick-off symposium
On the path to a national strategy for implementing the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training.

From ENQA-VET to EQAVET
With the EQARF, the European Union has given the Member States a "toolbox" with ten indicators and a systematic quality assurance process. These indicators were designed to make it possible to provide information on the status of quality assurance in vocational education and training in EU Member States. The practicability of the EQARF indicators is to be tested in the Member States. If necessary, the indicators are to be modified by the year 2013. The implementation of the European reference framework is being supported by the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) network whose members include representatives of the EU Member States, the National Reference Points for Quality Assurance and the European social partners.