In German enterprises "Mobile Learning" is about to become the main pillar of digital learning – in addition to "Blended Learning", which is regarded as having the greatest significance for continuing education within enterprises also in the future. This is the result of the trend study MMB Learning Delphi 2011.
Successful innovations originate within a team. German researchers and developers working within enterprises and research institutions advance their inventions only in cooperation with qualified trained personnel. The dual vocational training system guarantees the professional and social qualification of employees.
According to Barbara Fabian, expert for European Union's (EU) education policy at the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), one of the reasons for the lack of perspective on part of many British young people lies in the absence of a good vocational training system in the United Kingdom.
The pilot initiative DECVET, currently in its testing phase, aims at rendering comparable with each other the knowledge, capabilities and competences acquired at different institutions in Germany.
In its study "Education at a Glance 2011" the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) once again shed light on the educational situation in Germany.
On 1st of November 2011 in Kunshan as part of the opening of the Startup Factory a further SKZ educational location is entering into service. During his visit to China, the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Martin Zeil, participated at the Opening Ceremony.
The Wuppertaler Kreis e.V. - Bundesverband betriebliche Weiterbildung (Federal Association for Continuing Occupational Education) is the economy's association of the leading institutions providing continuing education.
The UK Department of Education and Science and the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), responsible for adult and continuing education, intend to improve vocational training in the United Kingdom, yet are forced to implement massive cuts over the course of the next years due to the government’s strict austerity policy.
International researchers on vocational training have observed that initiatives aiming at deregulating professional education have significantly lost in popularity in the course of the last couple of years. Instead, the dual vocational training system celebrates its comeback in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Sweden, South Africa or Malaysia.
