News about VET from Germany

Markus Rauberger has overcome 20,000 rivals to come out on top in his profession. The 23 year old is happy to have graduated from the dual training system.

Iris Gleicke, the Federal Government Commissioner for Small and Medium-sized Businesses and Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, presented federal prizes for outstanding innovative achievement in craft trades at the international craft trade fair in Munich.

Elke Büdenbender visited the Technology Centre run by the Chamber of Crafts and Trades in Lüneburg.

Despite Brexit, pupils from a vocational business school pulled together to help build a united "House of Europe" – and had fun at the same time.

The Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and Minister-President of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, have signed a bilateral agreement in Luxembourg on cross-border cooperation in vocational education and training.

Following a three-year training programme, precisely 183 trainees in hearing aid acoustics from all over Germany recently passed their final apprenticeship exam at the Academy of Hearing Aid Acoustics, thus achieving journeyman status as qualified apprentices.

On 15 March 2018, 17 young people received their training and IHK (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) certificates at ZEISS in Jena.

According to the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the training market is in balance – but only theoretically.

Each of the new graduates will have a total of €7200 available to spend on continuing education over the next three years.