News about VET from Germany

Industry is increasingly automated. However, it will not operate entirely without people. Electronics technicians for automation technology are responsible for the production systems.

Federal Ministry of Education and Research 'info' tour stops off in Franconia. Parliamentary Secretary of State, Stefan Müller (Member of the Bundestag), provided information about funding options and opportunities in vocational education and training.

State government upgrades technology in vocational schools and Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Bavaria.

The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) has been investigating whether the four dual IT occupations, which have remained unchanged since 1997, need to be modernised. Against the background of the increasing digitalisation of the world of work, the aims of this process were to identify current and foreseeable requirements for skilled IT staff and to draw up proposals for the future shaping of the IT occupations.

There is increasing interest among companies and young people in the model of assisted apprentice training for weaker trainees which was launched last year by the Federal Employment Agency (FEA).

"How am I supposed to remember all that, that's too much at once for the final examination," complains Sofia B, a 19-year-old Argentinian who is hoping to successfully complete her two year training in 8 weeks' time as an Industrial Management Assistant at the vocational training centre (VTC) in Buenos Aires. For the teachers at the VTC, this was reason enough to trial something new during the revision period leading up to the Chamber of Foreign Trade's (AHK) Management Assistant examinations.

Attracting young people to Vocational Education and Training while at school with vocational, higher level school leaving certificate and with greater transparency and advice.

The new EU services package and its attack on both the German skilled crafts and the master craftsman certificate was a key topic at the opening of the Internationalen Handwerksmesse 2017 - the leading craft trade fair. Zypries, Minister of Economic Affairs, is seeking to protect the training system and the Chambers' self-administration in Germany.

The skilled crafts provide equality of opportunity. Here there is an opportunity for everybody — if they want it and are prepared to work. A guest article by Hans Peter Wollseifer, President of the German Central Association of Skilled Trades (ZDH).