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Building Bridges Between Education and
Employment
Lars Thies
European Parliament, February 26th, 2015
Vocational training - opportunities for everyone!
Connecting the education system with employers
Vocational
Education
General
Education
Dual
Apprenticeships
Career
Guidance
Employment
Higher
Education
Dual
Studies
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Career orientation and guidance helps young people with
one of their most difficult decisions
Education
+
Career orientation
Individual assessment
and counselling
Transition
Employment
Informed decisions
Motivation
?
Self-awareness
?
Exposure to a workplace
?
Cooperation with
businesses
?
?
?
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Vocational training - opportunities for everyone!
Dual vocational training is known to be effective in
fostering youth employment
Apprentices acquire skills that are truly in demand …
… and they are in contact with employers.
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Elements of dual systems in Austria, Germany and other
countries can be useful examples for reforms
Aim: skilled workers
with flexible
qualifications
Social acceptance
Balance of
standardization and
flexibility
Dual principle:
alternating learning
sites
Individual
Goals
Research
Social
Economic
Qualified teachers
and trainers
Partnership of
government and
businesses
Joint funding
Codified quality
standards
Complementary
school-based VET
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Government, employers, and trade unions are partners in
delivering vocational training
Government
Vocational
schools
Training at
the workplace
Businesses
Design of vocational profiles
Administering VET
Funding
Finding Training Places
Ensuring quality
Trade Unions
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Dual Studies can ease the transition from higher
education into employment in Germany
Rising number of students
Duality in higher education
Combination of an apprenticeship or
work-based learning with a bachelors
degree
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
Cooperation between companies and
higher education institutions
Companies choose the students for
these programmes
Students often receive remuneration
High demand by prospective
students (up to 30 applications per
place)
20,000
10,000
0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Source: Database DualPlus, Federal Institute for Vocational Training
High employability
Up to 89% of the students are
employed by their training
company after graduation.
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Conclusion
Partnership is necessary!
One size does not fit all!
Award
Quality is key!
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Thank you very much for your attention!
Contact:
Lars Thies
+49 5241 81-81104
[email protected]