The biology laboratory "Com-Lab Bio" by the Saxon Education Company for Environmental Protection and Chemical Occupations Dresden ltd. (SBG) has been reinaugurated after an adjournment of almost two years and is open to the public again.
"VerA" (abbreviation for "prevention of breaking-off training") is a relatively young initiative by the Senior Experts Service (SES) - one of the largest German volunteer organisations for retired specialists and executives. As part of VerA, SES experts assist young trainees who face problems during their training and help build up their social competences and learning motivation.
A Chinese delegation from Huangshi, led by the mayor, Yang Xiaobo, visited the Erich-Hauser-Gewerbeschule in Rottweil, Baden-Wuerttemberg to gather information about the German dual system of vocational education and training.
The training regulations for "Reiseverkehrskaufmann/-kauffrau" (travel agent) have been modernised and adjusted to current industry requirements and developments by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).
German enterprises are willing to hire new staff. The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) expects the creation of 400,000 new jobs in the next twelve months.
Baden-Württemberg's upper secondary vocational schools of economics can offer trade as new elective course, starting from the beginning of the next school year in September.
Ever since the PISA study, it is well known that education is not only a task for the German federal government and the German federal states but is also significant in the European context.
Given the problems faced by many young people during the transition from school into initial vocational education and training (IVET), how to increase the accessibility of the IVET system is a matter for debate. In a round of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) "Vocational Training Experts Monitor" survey at the end of 2010, around 500 experts commented on various reform proposals. Their ratings are presented in this article.
The extracurricular pilot projects which the German government supports on the basis of Section 90 (3) No. 1 d) of the Vocational Training Act are an instrument for the qualitative development of and research into initial and continuing vocational training.
