News about VET from Germany

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Around €10 million for inter-company vocational education and training

The federate state of Baden-Württemberg is providing funding of around 10 million euros to support inter-company vocational education and training courses in 2018. This will ensure the quality of training, enhance readiness for training, and support development opportunities for young people.

Education and training in Europe: Member States made further progress

The 2018 edition of the European Commission's Education and Training Monitor finds that Member States have made further progress towards the EU's targets set for 2020.

Industry responds to skilled worker shortage with in-house training

The international shortage of skilled workers is hampering German exports and investment abroad. In Germany, the economy is actively engaged in responding to this shortage. It is involved in training qualified employees in their companies and is benefiting from this in numerous ways. The establishment and expansion of training structures across the world means that the group of those benefiting can be significantly expanded. To support this, German industry and international stakeholders are able to draw upon collaboration with the German education and training industry and its network platform iMOVE.

Germany: digitisation in inter-company vocational training and competence centres

Demands in technical equipment for inter-company vocational training centres (ÜBS) have been increasing due to rapidly increasing requirements in digitisation and the technical changes in work processes of training occupations.

Mobility in VET 2017 in Germany

In Germany, 5.3 per cent of all initial Vocational Education and Training graduates in 2017 had some mobility experience during their training. This is one key result of a research study called "Transnational Mobility in Initial Vocational Education and Training in 2017", published by the National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme at the Federal Institute for Vcational Education and Training (NA at the BIBB).

Ten facts about the job market in Germany

How many people are in gainful employment and where do they work? Here are some key facts, and a surprising number relating to the "industrious Germans". Around 5.5 million people in Germany work in the skilled crafts sector.

Germany's best employers

These are the top companies in the current employer rankings.

Around €18 billion from their own pocket

Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) analysis of the costs and benefits of continuing vocational training

Weiherhammer/China: German training model for China

In Shanghai, 300 employees are to be trained in the metalworking and electrical sector in accordance with the proven model of German dual vocational education and training - this is the aim of BHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH at its Chinese production site.