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Issue 6.2010

Special focus - Filling training places Press releases
Special focus - Supply-related and demand-related factors BIBB International
Special focus - Discover your talent Activities
Special focus - Vocational training from and for immigrants New Publications
Commentary - Nothing will remain the same: regional educational markets in demog... Imprint
BIBB Report issue 15/2010    
Special focus - Filling training places Top of the page

Which companies find their desired candidates? Which companies are prepared to lower their sights with regard to applicant qualification? At which companies do training places remain unfilled?

Margit Ebbinghaus, Katarzyna Loter

In the light of the ever increasing scope being afforded to the impending shortage of skilled workers in public and educational policy debate, it appears to defy logic that around 17,000 training places remained unfilled in 2009 - a figure which needs to be measured against the 83,000 young people who failed in their search for a training place.

Read more Filling training places.

Special focus - Supply-related and demand-related factors Top of the page

Klaus Troltsch, Günter Walden, Thomas Krupp

Time series-based studies come to the conclusion that supply-related factors which influence employment development and the labour market have been more important than demand-related developments in the years since the start of the new millennium. This article will examine whether and to what extent it is possible to demonstrate similar relations when the regional level is examined.

Read more Supply-related and demand-related factors that influence the regional supply of in-company training places

Special focus - Discover your talent Top of the page

Carolin Kunert

Every year, around 60,000 young people leave school without any qualifications. There is a further and growing number of young people who are not considered to be in possession of the necessary apprenticeship entry maturity and who are unable to access the labour market. In addition to this, training drop-outs are relatively prevalent whereas many companies in East Germany in particular are no longer able to fill their training places. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is seeking to put an end to this trend and to support young people in the transition from school to work via its programme "Supporting vocational orientation in inter-company vocational training centres and comparable VET centres".

Read more Discover your talent - the vocational orientation programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Special focus - Vocational training from and for immigrants Top of the page

Dual vocational training in immigrant-owned companies

Seda Rass-Turgut

Improving vocational training for young people with an immigrant background # along with getting immigrant-owned companies more involved in providing 'dual' vocational training (which in Germany combines part-time vocational schooling with practical work experience) # is a task that not only Germany is facing.

Read more Vocational training from and for immigrants

Commentary - Nothing will remain the same: regional educational markets in demographic upheaval Top of the page

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

The diversity of providers and provision in initial and advanced vocational education and training may be viewed as a mark of quality of the German VET system. Public and private providers ensure that a close knit network of initial and advanced VET opportunities which offer virtual nationwide coverage is in place. Many projects and initiatives bear witness to the creativity and innovative ability of regional stakeholders. This creativity and innovation will also be required in order to deal effectively with the demographic changes which are on the horizon.

Read more: Nothing will remain the same: regional educational markets in demographic upheaval

Read more BWP 6/2010 Regional educational markets

BIBB Report issue 15/2010 Top of the page

The hunt for a training place:
Prospects not as good for young men and women with an immigrant background

Ursula Beicht, Mona Granato

Decisions are made during the transition from secondary school to the vocational training system that lay the tracks which will determine the future course of a young person's occupation and life on a long-term basis. The type of training youths seek upon completing their general secondary schooling and the level of success they have in their efforts to find training depends to a very large degree on the individual's school-leaving qualification.

Read more The hunt for a training place: Prospects not as good for young men and women with an immigrant background

Press releases Top of the page
21.12.2010 (50)
From wind power to nutrition: BIBB sponsors seven projects in the vocational education and training for sustainable development field
20.12.2010 (49)
Continuing Education and Training Sector: Business mood still positive - Providers invest more in quality assurance
17.12.2010 (48)
Chances of finding a training place: the West "outperformed" by the East
16.12.2010 (47)
BIBB Board issues opinion on the German Qualifications Framework and on permeability between vocational education and training and university-level education
06.12.2010 (46)
Who will take care of us in the future? Shortage of skilled nursing care workers already foreseeable
26.11.2010 (45)
BIBB evaluates continuing IT vocational training system - Beginning with an online survey of IT Professionals
16.11.2010 (44)
The search for a training place: making better use of the potential displayed by young men and women from a migrant background
11.11.2010 (43)
Better opportunities for full vocational training - young people benefit from demographic change
29.10.2010 (42)
Hermann Schmidt Prize 2010: five projects recognised for environmentally friendly and sustainable concepts in vocational training
BIBB International Top of the page

ReferNet
The latest issue of the Country Report for Germany "VET in Europe - Country Report Germany 2010" is available online. This report offers an overview of the German vocational education and training system in English. It can be downloaded at www.refernet.de where you will also find all the reports from our European partners as soon as they are available.
http://www.ReferNet.de

Cooperation with MOLISA and the National Institute of Vocational Education (NIB) in Vietnam
Although Germany and Vietnam do not face the same challenges, we in Germany also have to develop our vocational education and training system constantly in order to remain competitive. That was the core message of BIBB President Manfred Kremer in his keynote speech at the opening of the Symposium on Challenges within Vocational Education and Training in Vietnam and Germany on 1 December 2010 in Hanoi.
http://www.bibb.de/en/56634.htm

BIBB workshop in Singapore
Miachel Wiechert
At the invitation of the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) and the Workforce Development Agency (WDA), the BIBB, represented by Ms. Thomann, Director of the International Department of the BIBB, and Mr. Wiechert, Head of the Consulting and International Cooperation Department, held a workshop on 28/29 October 2010 at the "Adult Learning Symposium 2010 - Skills, Productivity and Professionalism" in Singapore.
http://www.bibb.de/en/56532.htm

BIBB Honoured for its Franco-German Exchange Initiative
Hans Joachim Kissling
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) was honoured at the celebration marking the 30th anniversary of the Franco-German vocational education and training exchange program
http://www.bibb.de/en/56346.htm

Activities Top of the page

26 January 2011 | Technical University of Darmstadt
Contemporary Vocational Training: topics - developments - challenges

01 - 03 February 2011 | Karlsruhe
LEARNTEC Congress 2011

19 - 20 September | Berlin
6th BIBB VET Congress 2011

10 February 2011 | Berlin, AZV Exhibition and Events Centre "im Logenhaus", Emser Straße 12 - 13, 10719 Berlin
Structuring education together - securing transfer and sustainability

22 -26 February 2011 | Stuttgart
didacta 2011 - the Educational Trade Fair


Activities

New Publications Top of the page
Joachim Gerd Ulrich
Training market in upheaval
Thomas Borowiec, Bettina Janssen, Rainer Vock
Work and employment in the health and beauty spa services sector
Imprint Top of the page

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