The German Ambassador Peter Wittig met with Iowa Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds in Washington in May to discuss skills training in businesses in the Midwest.
The dynamic of dual study courses remains unbroken: with 11.4 per cent in 2013, the "AusbildungPlus" (Vocational Education Plus) database of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) registered a two-digit growth rate in the number of dual study courses for initial training.
The vocational education and training provision of the Duisburg Werkstatt für Menschen mit Behinderung (Workshop for People with Disabilities) strikes a new path with the compilation of framework training programmes. The transition to the first employment market is to be made easier.
The 2nd International Trainer Courses (ITK) at the University of Leipzig ended with a certificate award ceremony: during this five-month intensive training course, 53 trainers and sports teachers from 35 countries have gained further qualifications - in handball in Arabic, as endurance trainer in French, in basketball in English and in volleyball in Spanish.
The working group "Jugendberufsagentur in Berlin umsetzen?" (Implementing a youth job agency in Berlin?) has inherently spoken out in favour of the model of a youth job agency.
Recently, 12 of 14 newly accepted scholarship students of the sponsorship programme Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung (Vocational Training Programme for the Highly Talented) were welcomed at the education centre of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce South Thuringia (IHK).
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) analyses the implementation of the Law to improve the assessment and recognition of foreign professional qualifications. The results of the first phase of analyses have been published in the Report on the Recognition Act of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
BIBB analyses the implementation of the Law to improve the assessment and recognition of foreign professional qualifications. The results of the first phase of analyses have been published in the Report on the Recognition Act of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
