31 pupils of the 7th grade of the HRS and Pestalozzi School in Brake, Lower Saxony (Germany), participated in a career orientation programme of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).
The three winners of the competition "Ideas Initiative Future" – the project group "Schools Network for Education for Sustainable Development" from Grevenbroich, "WERDE WeltFAIRaenderer" ("become a fair changer of the world") from Mainz and "Sustainable Development for All" from Bamberg – were awarded for their sustainable commitment for the world of tomorrow by the German commission for UNESCO and dm-drogerie markt at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on June 3, 2011.
A partner project in vocational education with Moldova was officially inaugurated by Dirk Bohn, Managing Director of the District Craft Trades Association Hersfeld-Rotenburg (Germany) in the provincial capital Chisinau, Moldova.
In March, seven young mentally challenged people successfully completed a "cooperative vocational education and preparation for the general job market" (KoBV) as a vocational training measure in Rastatt, State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Six of them have received a regular employment contract by their training companies.
Companies of all industries are urgently looking for new apprentices. According to a recent company survey conducted by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research, more than 25 per cent of the companies in which apprentices are trained are planning to offer more training positions than in the previous year.
The budget of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will rise in 2012 to a new record of 12.8 billion euros. In comparison to 2011 this is an increase of almost 10 per cent. This is part of a government bill which has been passed by the Federal Cabinet on July 5.
The vocational school of Northern Frisia in Husum has been awarded a prize for being an inclusion project "Vocational Training for Handicapped Persons – Ways to Inclusion by Joint Learning at Vocational Schools". This makes the educational institution in Husum one of the fist entries on the German inclusion map.
For the first time, a young woman has passed her plastics technician apprenticeship as best graduate of the year Germany-wide. Katharina Köpfler learned her profession at the company F. Morat & Co. GmbH in Eisenbach.
Despite successful modernisation of the vocational education and training (VET) system over the last decade, once again the academic discourse about the effectiveness and sustainability of VET has intensified.
