News about VET from Germany

Environment Day was 5 June. Dual training occupations present a wide range of opportunities for working in the area of environmental and climate protection. Many of these occupations were categorised as system-relevant in the coronavirus crisis.

Almost half of companies with an innovation focus are complaining of staff shortages. In particular, there is a lack of skilled workers with VET in the production and IT sectors. This threatens capacity for innovation. Policy-makers and business must take measures to counteract this. 

From July onwards all master craftsman qualifications will receive €1,000 in financial support.

The periodontology master's course has been reliant on a digital concept for more than 15 years. 

A survey by the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce involving 712 training companies from the chamber district, including the district of Oberberg, has shown that companies in the region are continuing to support company-based training despite the coronavirus crisis.

Since October 2020, Elke Carolin Demtschueck has been supporting the iMOVE contact point in India as a senior expert specialising in the Indian education and training market. Read her message to German training exporters.

German Trade Union Federation publishes report on "VET in the USA: structures and challenges from a trade union perspective" which is now available free-of-charge in the BIBB's VET Repository in German and English. The publication was discussed in February 2020 with the US delegation from the state of Wisconsin.

Loubna Gilani started her career as a trainee. A story of how curiosity and passion become a career.

The British want to develop a "world-class" training system in line with the German model.