Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

More young people starting training, but more unsuccessful training place applicants than in previous year

Joachim Gerd Ulrich, Simone Flemming, Elisabeth M. Krekel

Of the training place applicants registered with the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA) about 3 700 more than in the previous year had started an apprenticeship in the period up to 30 September 2006. Yet at the same time, the number of "applicants not yet placed" rose by 9,000 to 49,500, the highest figure since reunification. The difference between the number of unfilled training places and the number of unplaced applicants was 34,100, the greatest it has ever been since the beginning of the nineties.