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.
Four young men have achieved a good start into working life at the Berufsschulzentrum vocational college. They are graduates of the programme 'Kooperative berufliche Bildung und Vorbereitung für den allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt' (Co-operative vocational education and training and preparation for the general labour market), which helps people with disabilities to launch themselves into a career.
