Survey: Continuing occupational education trends

Companies not only once again invest to a greater degree in the qualification of their employees. In the long term, one can in particular observe the trend of their growing interest in integrating the learning and qualification processes into the operational processes.

With its annual association survey "Continuing Education Trends", the Wuppertaler Kreis e.V. - Bundesverband betriebliche Weiterbildung (Federal Association for Continuing Occupational Education) analyses the development of the continuing education market on the basis of trend statements with respect to orders received, business outlook and development tendencies within the market.

The most important long-term trend for continuing occupational education is the integration of the learning and qualification processes into the operational processes. Continuing education measures are increasingly conceived as an integrated part and motor of company development processes and the institutions providing continuing education thus are immediately involved as strategic partners of the enterprises.

Another trend is the increasing interest on part of both enterprises and participants in the certification of competences that were acquired in the course of continuing education. Certificates serve to improve the employees' marketability in the employment market and the institutions providing continuing education are called upon to organise their service offer on the basis of the standards relevant for the employment market.