News about VET from Germany

We provide the latest news about vocational training from Germany and international collaboration with German partners.

Filter results

Date from
Date to

Important step towards more inclusion

The vocational education and training provision of the Duisburg Werkstatt für Menschen mit Behinderung (Workshop for People with Disabilities) strikes a new path with the compilation of framework training programmes. The transition to the first employment market is to be made easier.

University of Leipzig bids farewell to its International Trainer Course participants

The 2nd International Trainer Courses (ITK) at the University of Leipzig ended with a certificate award ceremony: during this five-month intensive training course, 53 trainers and sports teachers from 35 countries have gained further qualifications - in handball in Arabic, as endurance trainer in French, in basketball in English and in volleyball in Spanish.

Young people's future

The working group "Jugendberufsagentur in Berlin umsetzen?" (Implementing a youth job agency in Berlin?) has inherently spoken out in favour of the model of a youth job agency.

Getting started with vocational training

Recently, 12 of 14 newly accepted scholarship students of the sponsorship programme Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung (Vocational Training Programme for the Highly Talented) were welcomed at the education centre of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce South Thuringia (IHK).

Monitoring the implementation of the Federal Recognition Act as a contribution to quality assurance

The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) analyses the implementation of the Law to improve the assessment and recognition of foreign professional qualifications. The results of the first phase of analyses have been published in the Report on the Recognition Act of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Monitoring the implementation of the Federal Recognition Act as a contribution to quality assurance

BIBB analyses the implementation of the Law to improve the assessment and recognition of foreign professional qualifications. The results of the first phase of analyses have been published in the Report on the Recognition Act of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The crafts - a success story thanks to qualification and quality

The Federal Government Representative for the East and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Iris Gleicke, opened this year's Internationale Handwerksmesse (IHM - International Trade Fair for the Crafts) in Munich under the Motto "Können kennt keine Grenzen" (Capability knows no bounds).

Mink Bürsten wins Bundesbildungspreis

Mink Bürsten is the winner of the IHK's first nationwide education prize in the category 50 to 500 employees. Company boss Peter Zimmermann was thrilled. "It is really great that our company has won this prize."

Social inclusion and vocational schools: New research findings

In 2013 the European Training Foundation (ETF) and the experts from the London School of Economics and Political Science completed a research project 'Mapping of VET [vocational education and training] educational policies and practices for social inclusion and social cohesion' in south eastern Europe, Turkey and Israel. Now the ETF has published the cross-country report with findings and recommendations.