News about VET from Germany

Playing the piano is one thing, making it is quite another. The two trainees David Herrmann and Anna Sender are currently learning to do this at the Trier-based piano makers Pianohaus Marcus Hübner. 

Federal programme "Safeguard vocational training places" is expanded.

Launch of initial projects in Berlin and Thuringia

The 23 talented footballers will be living, studying and playing football in Bad Aibling for at least six months. They will also attend an intensive German course at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Education Campus (DBBC).

Since 2017, the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts has maintained a vocational training partnership project with the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors (ABCEC) in Zambia.

For the fourth time, "Capital" magazine recognized the best trainers in Germany (German only). Deutsche Telekom was able to impress the judges again this year and received the seal for professional training and the cooperative study program.

An analysis of vocational training in thirteen focus countries

To strengthen the resilience of the portfolio of more than 50,000 public schools in Peru to natural disaster risks, the Frankfurt School, as implementing agency of the ISF, signed a grant funding agreement with the IDF project consortium partners.

Germany is comparatively well positioned internationally when it comes to its education system. But the weeks of school closures could have massive financial consequences in the long-term for the generation of students affected.