News about VET from Germany

16 students at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) in Bern participated in an exchange with the Platinate Chamber of Skilled Crafts.

The 2022 Hermann-Schmidt prize is awarded to companies, vocational schools or cooperative arrangements which have excelled themselves specifically in the areas of sustainability or digitalisation in training and continuing education.

Experts can use new competence toolkit to internationalise occupations in regulation procedures

Twelve trainees from the Heinsberg district were pleased with top grade of "very good". 

Many young people do not make the transition directly from school into vocational education and training. They should therefore be given specific support in the transition sector.

The Trier Chamber of Crafts and Trade's (HWK) "skilled trades campus" was officially opened as part of the "Fascination of Skilled Trades" week. 

The shortage of skilled workers in technical and natural science occupations has almost doubled compared to 2021. The situation is particularly precarious in digitalisation occupations in eastern Germany. 

To alleviate staff shortages in restaurants and hotels, Interior Minister Faeser wants to "bring good workers to Germany". FDP is even calling for a radical change in immigration policy.

"No future unless you go to college?" Experts and trainees in the USA and in Germany exchanged views on alternative VET models and pathways in a high-calibre webinar staged by the Urban Institute in conjunction with the "Skills Initiative" of the German Embassy.