In this section you find information on training and continuing training occupations of the dual system of vocational education and training as regulated by the Vocational Training Act and the Crafts and Trade Regulation Code.
A powerful and honest signal of equivalence is needed!
Germany is facing a constant increase in entrants to higher education study accompanied by a significant fall in the numbers of training contracts being concluded. Therefore a powerful signal in the form of political acknowledgement of the equivalence of vocational and academic education is needed.
We should seize the opportunity to reach 1.3 million young people!
BIBB President Friedrich Hubert Esser was awarded the Georg Schulhoff Prize in November 2023. In his acceptance speech, Professor Esser emphasised that education for democratic citizenship is an important aspect of holistic VET in the face of declining trust in democratic institutions.
Can education for democratic citizenship be a task for company-based training?
In the face of political disillusionment, training providers face the challenge of identifying which elements of civic education they can offer without risking being perceived as ideologically biased or manipulative. This article outlines the points of reference offered by the occupational profiles.
Custom tailoring combines creative dexterity, traditional techniques and modern manufacturing. Custom tailors create haute couture and theatre costumes for private clients and stage performances. This occupational profile provides training figures for this profession.
Profile of an occupation – technical product designer
Technical product designers conceptualise and develop data models, constructions, 3D models and components. This ensures that ideas and stipulations for products and machines can also be implemented. This profile presents tasks undertaken in both specialisms and figures relating to the occupation.
Labour market and vocational education and training
In times of societal transformation, the interaction between the labour market and VET is facing considerable challenges. This issue of BWP asks how VET can be structured in a way which enables it to keep pace with the speed of the transformation.
World Rivers Day – presenting the occupation of hydraulic technician
Germany’s many rivers provide valuable habitats, places of recreation and important transport routes for both humans and goods. Hydraulic technicians ensure that people can live safely alongside rivers.
Although equivalence between vocational and higher education is a pressing policy endeavour, the objective remains unachieved in reality. This issue of BWP looks at the reasons for the differing degrees of esteem and investigates why these are so difficult to surmount.
How to take digitalization and sustainability into account in training occupations
The standard occupational profile items apply cross-professionally to all 326 training occupations. They now have been further developed and take aspects of digitalization and sustainability explicitly into account. GOVET offers an overview in Arabic, German, English, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish.
In an interview, that was first released for the re:publica 2020, BIBB President Esser answers questions about the current "systemically relevant" issues and challenges in the Corona crisis. The interview is now available on the BIBB YouTube channel with subtitles in English, Russian and Spanish.
Maintaining the cultural heritage of the craft trades
There is a growing sense of awareness in Germany of the cultural heritage of the craft trades. Therefore, nationally standardised advanced training regulations for the qualification of “Certified restorer in the craft trades” in 19 different trades are introduced for the first time.
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Four out of five young people are being trained in their desired occupation
The vast majority (83%) of applicants able to find a company-based training position are receiving training in their desired occupation or in one of their desired occupations. These are the findings of the representative BA/BIBB applicant survey.
Monday, 2 September 2019
50 years of the BBiG – a guarantor of high quality
The Vocational Training Act entered into force 50 years ago on 1 September 1969. BIBB President Esser marked the occasion by stating that the law is a guarantor of high-quality VET.
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
“Create a closer link between initial and continuing VET”
BIBB President Esser has marked the beginning of the new training year on 1 August by emphasising the need for initial and continuing vocational education and training to be even more closely linked in future.
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
New training regulations for the occupation of industrial cleaner
The revision of the training occupation addresses technical, economic and organisational changes and developments that have taken place in craft trade practices in the field of industrial cleaning. The updated training regulations replace the existing regulations from 1999 as of 1 August 2019.
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Training regulations and how they come about
This brochure provides information on a unique procedure for the development of training regulations. The arrangements form the basis for initial training in the dual system, in which many young people in Germany begin their vocational qualification.
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