Promoting industry dialogue with vocational expert groups

Why it is worthwhile to reconsider the GDR vocational expert commissions

Coverbild: BWP 5/2015
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Ausgabe/Jahr (Jahrgang) 5/2015 (44)
Seite(n) 34-37
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Vocational expert commissions were firmly established in the GDR vocational training system as institutions for the development of skilled worker occupations. Although they were considered meaningful bodies by many, efforts made ten years after German reunification to introduce them into the Alliance for Jobs under the designation of vocational expert groups met with a subdued response. The paper uses two examples to describe the resistance and difficulties and at the same time to underline the potentialities of such bodies for the reorganisation of occupations requiring initial and further training.