"The demand for further education fortunately increases," said Federal Minister Annette Schavan when the German government issued the 10,000th continuing-education grant voucher.
Germany's "comprehensive" support for students studying abroad puts it on top of a new index for promoting international higher education, in which it outranks the UK and the US.
The European continuing vocational training survey (CVTS) is a unique source of internationally comparable data on training in enterprises. This report provides the first European detailed comparative analysis of the results of the third survey (CVTS3).
A new study on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology compares vocational training and academic education in respect to quality management and labour market potentials and underlines that they are of equal value.
Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research aims at a greater degree of internationalisation for the vocational education and training system.
Banks have to fight hard to win back their customers' trust. A private bank in the German city of Essen now started a bold experiment: In one of its branch offices trainees run the business.
German Chancellor Merkel und Brazilian President Lula announce German-Brazilian Year of Science, Technology and Innovation to start in Brazil in April 2010.
According to the budgetary planning of the German government for 2010, the budget of the Ministry of Education and Research has been raised by 7 per cent to the amount of 10.9 billion euros compared to 2009.
