Occupational gender segregation - taking different routes
Gender-atypical VET could have the potential to reduce gender segregation on the labour market and to lessen gender-specific inequalities. The BIBB article identifies challenges people face in their employment trajectory if they opted for training in an occupation dominated by the other gender.
Following a gradual recovery from the pandemic-related downturn, the number of newly concluded training contracts decreased slightly by 0.5 per cent in 2024. The BIBB publication outlines unsuccessful market entries, matching problems, and trends in the supply of and demand for training places.
Companies that want to ensure high-quality dual vocational training have a variety of tools at their disposal. The BIBB study “Quality assurance of company-based training in the dual system in Germany” looks at the instruments and procedures deployed by companies to ensure successful training.
The Data Report of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) provides an overview of the actual data on the German Vocational Education and Training system, published in German. This English version presents a selection of the data and analyses of the 2023 Data Report.
What opportunities do digital report books offer for quality assurance in vocational training? Answers to these and other questions can be found in the summary paper on the DEQA-VET exchange workshop. The event, which took place on March 27, was organized by DEQA-VET in cooperation with Leando.
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.
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.
European feedback on the topic 'Quality assurance and qualification of in-company training personnel'
DEQA-VET carried out an EQAVET peer review on this topic in summer 2024. This feedback report summarises the impressions and recommendations of the eight European peers from the EQAVET network.
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.
This issue of BWP provides numerical data which forms the basis for an objective debate on what has been achieved thus far and on the remaining challenges in respect of sustainably promoting integration in and via vocational education and training.
Chambers, employers’ associations and other intermediary institutions make an indispensable contribution to ensuring and promoting the quality of company-based training through various measures. A DEQA-VET-project is now attempting to investigate quality initiatives at the intermediate level.
Training staff make a valuable contribution to the training and socialisation of the future’s skilled workers. This issue of BWP focuses on the acquisition and training of vocational training staff and on which old and new requirements need to be managed along the way.
BWP shows solidarity with Ukraine and adapts its cover for this issue. In terms of content it investigates the question as to the ways in which greater flexibility is useful or even necessary for an effective and modern VET system without, however, jettisoning fundamental principles.
How can sustainability – as to its social, economic and ecological dimensions – be enshrined structurally within the education system, and how can it be made an active and integral part of practice? The issue of BWP sheds light on the key role of VET with regard to implementing the 2030 Agenda aims.
The international conference hosted by "Education and Employers" took place under the motto "Preparing Young People for the Future". BIBB Director of Research and Vice President, Prof. Hubert Ertl, analysed the role of employers in initial and continuing vocational education and training in Germany.
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