News about VET from Germany

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).

The 33 graduates of the vocational education and training section of the Main-Kinzig disabled persons service can be proud of the certificates presented to them at a ceremony in the Hanauer Brockenhaus. The certificates are intended to help them find work in the primary employment market.

Do we all need to be academics? No! Today, even though policy-makers in education and training and the OECD are praising universities, traditional vocational education and training offers more opportunities than ever before.

The German National Carpenters team from Holzbau Deutschland (Federation of German Master Carpenters) were awarded gold in the individual and team classification for the third time in a row at the 2016 European Carpenters Championship in Basel.

A dual course of study, business administration or would training be better? There are approximately 8700 bachelor's degree courses in Germany alone, in addition to 328 training occupations.