News about VET from Germany

Deaf-mute trainee in a metal working workshop

The training market offers good opportunities for youngsters keen to learn. That was the message today from the presidents of four industry associations represented in a vocational training and continuing education alliance.

BMW hands over a training vehicle with top class equipment for use at the training centre of the District Craft Trades Association.

Germany and Israel are working together to preserve Bauhaus architecture – and exchanging apprentices in construction occupations too.

Partnership between the Gottlieb Daimler Schools in Sindelfingen and a school in Asia has been in place for 25 years

The 2016 Report on Vocational Education and Training adopted by the Federal Cabinet shows that more training places are available at companies in the current training year than was the case last year. Prognoses for 2016 are also positive. Nevertheless, training places have once again remained unfilled. In some craft trade occupations such as tinsmith and butcher, the vacancy level is as high as one in three.

Chancellor Angela Merkel gets behind the dual vocational and education training (VET) system in Germany. VET also continues to be strongly promoted in the fields of policy and research and in trade and industry.

Arian Hosseini wants to become a carpenter

A current survey conducted by the German Institute for Business Research (IW) on behalf of the Agency for Vocational Education and Training of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK-Bildungs-GmbH) has shown that persons who have completed advanced training do not lag behind their colleagues with higher education degrees when it comes to responsibility, prospects and income.