The partners in the training alliance aim to do their bit to ensure that refugees can begin training or work as swiftly as possible. At a meeting, stakeholders have specified what support they need. "We are acting now," said Federal Education Minister Johanna Wanka.
Well-trained employees are a competitive advantage for businesses. Advanced training helps to keep vocational qualification levels up-to-date, safeguards jobs and improves career prospects.
The German employment agency plans to introduce an instrument of 'assisted vocational training' in its initiative Betriebliche Ausbildung hat Vorfahrt (in-company training comes first).
A new analysis conducted by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) based on a survey covering 5, 500 young people aged 18 to 24 shows that young people with migrant backgrounds are nearly as successful in dual vocational education and training (VET) as their counterparts not from migrant backgrounds.
How can political violence be reappraised by the medium of film? How can this contribute to a country coming to terms with its past? These were key questions during a workshop of the DW Akademie in Bogotá.
Young people in Germany prefer to rather train as management assistant for retail services than as information technology electronics technician, as beautician than as plant mechanic, as event manager than as mechatronics fitter. The STEM professions, however, that is the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, are struggling with a lack of young talent. This is about to change.
Wirtschaftsjunioren celebrate 2,000 opportunities for disadvantaged youths – "Ein Tag Azubi" (Apprentice for a Day) event promotes dual system vocational education and Training.
