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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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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]