44 students of the Richard-von-Weizsaecker vocational college in Luedinghausen (Germany) reaped the fruit of their work which had taken them several weeks. They voluntarily registered to obtain the “foreign language certificate by the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Federal States” (KMK certificate) – and did so successfully. The young men and women received their personal certificates at the end of June.
31 pupils of the 7th grade of the HRS and Pestalozzi School in Brake, Lower Saxony (Germany), participated in a career orientation programme of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).
The three winners of the competition "Ideas Initiative Future" – the project group "Schools Network for Education for Sustainable Development" from Grevenbroich, "WERDE WeltFAIRaenderer" ("become a fair changer of the world") from Mainz and "Sustainable Development for All" from Bamberg – were awarded for their sustainable commitment for the world of tomorrow by the German commission for UNESCO and dm-drogerie markt at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on June 3, 2011.
A partner project in vocational education with Moldova was officially inaugurated by Dirk Bohn, Managing Director of the District Craft Trades Association Hersfeld-Rotenburg (Germany) in the provincial capital Chisinau, Moldova.
In March, seven young mentally challenged people successfully completed a "cooperative vocational education and preparation for the general job market" (KoBV) as a vocational training measure in Rastatt, State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Six of them have received a regular employment contract by their training companies.
Companies of all industries are urgently looking for new apprentices. According to a recent company survey conducted by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research, more than 25 per cent of the companies in which apprentices are trained are planning to offer more training positions than in the previous year.
The budget of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will rise in 2012 to a new record of 12.8 billion euros. In comparison to 2011 this is an increase of almost 10 per cent. This is part of a government bill which has been passed by the Federal Cabinet on July 5.
