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Zypries: Early vocational orientation is important

A study entitled "Training or degree? - How companies can support upper secondary school leavers with career orientation" by the Centre of Excellence for securing the supply of skilled labour, and funded by the Department for Economic Affairs, shows that many upper secondary school leavers assess career opportunities with a training certificate as significantly worse than with a degree.

Insight into new technologies

Young intern from Nepal completes continuing education at the Ilmtal clinic.

Menschen für Menschen: New vocational education and training centre opens in Ethiopia

The aid organisation "Menschen für Menschen - Karlheinz Böhm Äthiopienhilfe" has created 600 new training positions as a result of the construction of a new vocational education training centre in Ethiopia.

Celebrating the best of 2017 - let's hear it for the region's best trainees

The "super Trainees" from the 2016/2017 winter examination and the 2017 summer examination received their well-earned recognition at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce's celebration of best trainees.

Investigating career options in the region using the job bus

Company-based training or (dual) course of study in the region: Future upper secondary school leavers from Friesland and Wilhelmshaven were able to find out about career pathways on the Jade-Bay GmbH job buses.

Continuing education mastered: eight outstanding hygiene specialists

Four women and four men have now been recognised for continuing education in the NEW LIFE health academy.

Dual courses of study continue upwards trend

Over 100,000 students registered on the BIBB's AusbildungPlus database.

Next-generation tiling, screwing, hammering and wiring

Do-it-yourself beautiful murals: there was plenty to try out at the "skilled crafts day".

Rising demand for green skills training in Malaysia

In 2015, ahead of the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris, Malaysia pledged to cut carbon emissions intensity by 45 per cent by 2030. A key point in the plan was the pledge to conserve the Malaysian rainforest, which is one of the oldest in the world.