Language plays a key role in the acquisition and imparting of employability skills. At the same time, it is also an important medium for lending appropriate expression to the competence thus gained. Growing significance is being attached to occupationally related language support because not all people are in possession of sufficient language skills or else need to begin by learning the German language in the first place after having arrived in the country as an immigrant or refugee. The current issue of the BIBB-journal Vocational Training in Research and Practice( BWP) focuses on concepts and experiences that have emerged from vocational preparation and from initial and continuing vocational education and training.

Editorial: Language as a medium of training

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

Everyday working life presents a wide variety of occasions to use different kinds of language. We are required to communicate both in writing and orally and to use specialist and idiomatic language. Then there is the challenge of mastering a foreign language and sometimes even sign language. The objective of vocational education and training, the imparting of employability skills, is also ultimately articulated via the vehicle of language. The final examination requires written, oral and practical tasks to be completed in a communicative manner.
Editorial in the BIBB-journal Vocational Training in Research and Practice - BWP

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Overcoming taboos - creating prospects

In order to bring about a tangible improvement in adult reading and writing skills and to raise the basic level of education, the Federal Government and federal states have joined forces to instigate a "National Decade for Literacy and Basic Skills 2016-2026". This article explains the objectives of the decade and cooperation between future partners.
Article from the BIBB-journal Vocational Training in Research and Practice - BWP

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Using simple language to manage the recognition process

Lubjuhn, Julia; Moraht, Katharina

German officialese is difficult enough for many native speakers to understand. How much harder must it be for migrants who are confronted with this kind of language within the process of seeking professional or occupational recognition? This article describes both how the "Recognition in Germany" information portal uses simple language for the purposes of providing guidance and identifying occupational competencies, as well as the challenges associated with this approach.
Article from the BIBB-journal Vocational Training in Research and Practice - BWP

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New cooperation agreement signed between BIBB and the Columbian National Service for Vocational Education (SENA) in Bogotá

Juan Pablo Castro, Head of the Department for International Cooperation(SENA); Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weiß (BIBB); Alfonso Prada (Director des SENA) (f.l.t.r.)

The aim is that the new cooperation agreement will act as a basis for the firm establishment of the Columbian dual training model in legal and institutional terms with the help of consultancy services from BIBB. One important foundation in this regard is the "2015-2018 SENA Strategic Plan", which seeks to bring about the further development and institutionalisation of the Columbian dual training model by 2018, as well as to embed it at a national level.

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Launching of the Cost Benefit Study on Dual Training System in the Philippines

Since December 2014, BIBB has been advising its partner institute the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Human Resources Development Foundation (PCCI HRDF) on a cost-benefit analyses of the "Dual Training System Philippines". The final results are available since October 2016, comprising a "Cost-Benefit Study on the Dual Training System in the Philippines, an "Executive Summary" and a "PCCI Policy Brief".

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Regional BIBB Partners Meeting Asia-Pacific identifies core areas of future collaboration

Following the invitation of BIBB, TVET experts from partner institutions in the Asia-Pacific region got together for the second regional BIBB partners meeting in Nanjing, PR China on 13-14 October 2016. The event took place in the context of Education+, the first exhibition in China with a focus on vocational education organized by Messe Nanjing, a subsidiary of the German based Landesmesse Stuttgart. The meeting aimed at providing a forum for exchange of country experiences and discussion of good practices as well as challenges faced in the development and reform of TVET in Asia-Pacific and beyond.

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VET is key to peace and prosperity - 7th Arab-German Education and Vocational Training Forum

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iMOVE and Ghorfa welcomed approximately 250 education and training experts from Germany and Arab countries to the 7th Arab-German Education and Vocational Training Forum on the 5 and 6 October 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The event was opened by Minister of Education, Professor Johanna Wanka.

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Increased quality in company-based education and training in Italy

In collaboration with Italian stakeholders, the BIBB has developed general training plans for dual vocational education and training in the restaurant sector as a pilot project for the Veneto region. Trainers are currently being prepared to support company-based training personnel.

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Tertiary vocational education in Europe - examples from six education systems

Hippach-Schneider, Ute; Schneider, Verena; (Eds.)

The tertiary education sector has observably been developing comparatively dynamically in recent years. On the basis of examples from England, France, Ireland, Norway, Austria and Poland the understanding of "tertiary education", its structures and the relevance of work-based learning programmes are described. This report is published in the context of the BIBB-research project "Work-based Learning in tertiary education - an international comparative analysis of models and functions".

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New publications by iMOVE: Success Stories in Chinese and Russian

The "Developing Skills for Employability with German Partners" brochures present eight VET success stories of German and international partners. The edition of the sector-specific success stories from the health care sector and from the renewables sector are now available in Chinese and in Russian.

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Presentation on "Dual VET" now available in 10 languages

Presentation on "Dual VET" in Farsi

The GOVET(German Office for International Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training) presentation on Dual VET is now available in Farsi. It gives an overview of the core elements of dual vocational education and training. GOVET now offers the presentation in 10 different languages.

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