As India moves rapidly towards achieving ambitious economic and social targets, skills development will be critical for ensuring success as a knowledge economy. The challenge magnifies for India due to unprecedented issues of scalability and multiple challenges in implementation. It is projected that 500 million people will require training to join India's workforce by 2022.
Representatives from the world of politics, the economy, culture and education both from home and abroad followed the invitation by the Foreign Office to meet at the Allianz Stiftungsforum in Berlin in order to discuss the potential of the German school system abroad.
This brochure informs readers about Germany's unique process for developing initial vocational training regulations. These regulations are the basis for initial vocational education and training within the dual system (a company-based apprenticeship combined with part-time vocational school) in which many young people in Germany gain their first vocational qualifications.
For many vocational school students, the new school year begins with one new and 15 modernised occupations requiring vocational training to choose from, the training regulations of which became effective on August 1, 2011.
Since 2004 the German Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein cooperates with the company Siemens in the field of further training for teachers at vocational training schools. The topic "Energy efficiency and intelligent automation" now complements the training series.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology start a new information campaign under the heading "Vocational Education and Training – practically unbeatable".
The German Chambers of Industry and Commerce and the Otto-Wolf-Stiftung, a nonprofit foundation, awarded the "Initiative Prize Vocational Education and Training 2011".
President Christian Wulff underscored the important role played by vocational education and training in Germany, called for greater permeability between different educational pathways and proposed a "new culture of open doors".
