Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Walden, Günter; Schöngen, Klaus; Friedrich, Werner

The number of training places on offer is expected to decline this year. This is one of the key findings from a telephone survey of some 1,000 enterprises which the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training conducted in cooperation with the Kerpen-based WSF research institute in April 2009. The following report presents further findings from this survey which indicate the major reasons for this decline, the branches of industry and regions in which the decline will be particularly large and whether the number of training places on offer will be large enough to meet the demand from the current school leaver cohort.