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Report submitted to the Board of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) - Extract

Katrin Gutschow

Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weiß, Deputy President and Head of Research at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn

Recruitment and induction in enterprises - An interesting subject for vocational education and training research?
Marthe Geiben, Philipp Grollmann
Current European policy processes in the area of vocational education and training - such as the Bologna Process in the higher education field, the Lisbon Strategy, the joint work programme of the education ministers and the Copenhagen Process for vocational education and training have fuelled demand throughout the EU for comparative data and information on VET . The Lisbon Strategy has also boosted interest in comparisons with other regions such as North America and Asia.
http://www.bibb.de/en/55491.htm

A new study records the economic impact of German education exports for the first time
The study entitled Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung deutscher Bildungsexporte (The Economic Impact of German Education Export) commissioned by iMOVE presents the first attempt at a systematic overview of the German education sector with its different segments as well as in estimating the economic impact of education exports.
http://www.bibb.de/en/55401.htm

2. German-Arab Education and Vocational Training Forum
The 2nd German-Arab Education and Vocational Training Forum will take place October 12-13. With the 2nd Forum, iMOVE and Ghorfa are continuing their strategic partnership of creating and maintaining networks for German and Arab vocational training providers, as well as for industries and service providers involved in developing the vocational training sector in the Arab world. Once again, in 2010, the German-Arab Education and Vocational Training Forum will be under the auspices of the German Ministry of Education and Research.
http://www.imove-germany.org/en/german-arab-education-and-vocational-training-forum-336.html

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.

23 November 2010 | Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn
Knowledge Management - Developments, Prospects, Practical Applications
Conference to be held by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training on 23 November 2010
Increasing internationalisation, knowledge-intensive products and services, and the growing need to prepare and edit ever-greater amounts of information quickly and correctly in ever-shorter periods of time are just a few of the current trends which pose new challenges for today's information and knowledge society. One approach to mastering these challenges is knowledge management which ensures the efficient and systematic use of the resource 'knowledge'.

The conference will focus on current trends and issues in the field of knowledge management. Discussion will revolve around issues involving internal knowledge engineering and knowledge transfer in organisations and enterprises and around questions of how the availability, processing and usability of knowledge can be improved in external communication activities. This spectrum covers not only the knowledge management instruments which support work and communication processes but also new approaches to collaboration, networking and information processing. These will be discussed with the help of practical examples. The outlooks for approaches currently used in the knowledge management field and future trends will be pointed out.

The new online portal http://www.eu-bildungspolitik.de provides a clear view of EU educational policy. The website has been launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with the support of the National Agency "Education for Europe" at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). It offers a summary of the spectrum of topics relevant to European educational policy and presents the most important instruments, initiatives and decisions.
The portal is aimed at stakeholders in general and vocational education and in local government, at the social partners and educational establishments, at a specialist audience and at members of the general public wishing to find out about current developments and receive the latest information.

Read more http://www.eu-bildungspolitik.de/