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The Training Module Concept: A Way Towards Quality Improvement and Inclusion in German Vocational Education and Training (VET)?

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VET in Germany is based on a dual system (learning in vocational schools and companies) within regulated training occupations. It leads to a professional degree in the respective training occupation that is recognized countrywide. Traditionally, dual VET does not have a modularized structure. The German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) has recently developed competence-oriented training modules (“Ausbildungsbausteine”) for selected training occupations. These training modules have the aim of making learning outcomes more transparent and comparable, and of increasing the quality of qualification measures in prevocational training. The latter aims at easing transitions from these measures into regular (dual) VET. The traning modules have been implemented in selected regions and qualification measures within JOBSTARTER CONNECT, a pilot programme funded by the Federal Government and the European Social Fund (ESF). This article summarizes the main findings of the external evaluation of the programme.

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    Some of them are not able to start an apprenticeship altogether. Others cannot start an apprenticeship because the available (yet limited) spots are already distributed among better qualified school-leavers.

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    “Ausbildungsbausteine” are not the first modularization concept that is examined in Germany. However, their development and piloting is more ample and systematic than previous, often regional, attempts.

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    This paper can only provide a small selection of the evaluation’s findings. For more reports, the interested reader is referred to www.interval-berlin.de, where the relevant reports (see the overview in Ekert and Grebe 2014) can be found.

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    Comparison values for all VET participants have been taken from the official statistics available at www.bibb.de/dazubi and refer to 2013.

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    In Germany, vocational schools are specialized institutions that normally provide the school-based training within traditional (dual) VET. They also frequently offer state-sponsored programmes in the fields of pre-vocational training or cooperate with education providers to provide extra-company VET. In Germany’s federal structure, vocational schools are subject to legislature of the 16 states, creating (especially outside of federally regulated dual VET) a very heterogeneous landscape of qualification programmes offered.

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Grebe, T., Ekert, S. (2017). The Training Module Concept: A Way Towards Quality Improvement and Inclusion in German Vocational Education and Training (VET)?. In: Pilz, M. (eds) Vocational Education and Training in Times of Economic Crisis. Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47856-2_20

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