Minister Schavan consigned over 50,000 education bonuses

Further education becomes more and more important also in advanced stages of professional life. In December 2008, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research first established the education bonus. It constitutes a financial support for exployees with a low income who wish to receive further training. The bonus is a huge success: Minister Annette Schavan already consigned over 50,000 bonuses.

For recipients of the bonus the state pays half of the costs for further training programmes or exams, 500 euros per year at most. Special consultants check the personal qualifications, define the the training objective together with the recipient and name corresponding training offers and providers.