News about VET from Germany

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

These are the top companies in the current employer rankings.

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

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.

Education minister Tonne sits in on an elderly care class at the DIAKOVERE Vocational Education Centre for Health Occupations.