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Article Archive 2025

Monday, 28 April 2025

New GOVET-presentation: "Career orientation in the German vocational education and training system: an overview

The new GOVET presentation provides information on the objectives, principles, players and measures of vocational guidance as part of the German vocational education and training system. The presentation is available for download in four different languages as PowerPoint or PDF. 

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Wednesday, 16 April 2025

South African Study Visit to Northern Germany: Spotlight on innovation in TVET teaching and learning

What are the quality requirements for VET staff? What support would they need to fulfil them? And which stakeholders should have a say when it comes to the revision of teaching and learning practices? A South African delegation visited Bremen and Hamburg on these topics in a GOVET study tour.

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Collage with photos from the study visit
Monday, 14 April 2025

Data as key to TVET: Delegation from Ghana visiting GOVET and BIBB

How well does a VET system work? Data and their analysis provide the answers. The topic of data reporting was the focus of a visit by a delegation from Ghana. In April 2025, GOVET received a high-level delegation for a one-week exchange.

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Friday, 11 April 2025

Part-time training: a way to combine an apprenticeship with family?

Training and family – how does that balance work? Samira Friedrich is a future office manager at BIBB and is in her first year of training at GOVET. In an interview on the GOVET YouTube channel, she talks about her day-to-day training, the topic of part-time training and her professional future.

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Thursday, 13 March 2025

Can Germany's dual VET system strengthen Northern Virginia's clean energy workforce?

How can Northern Virginia develop the skilled workforce needed for its clean energy transition? In a guest article on the GOVET website, the International City/County Management Association explores how Germany’s dual VET system can offer solutions for Northern Virginia’s clean energy transition.

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The SDGs as elements of the GOVET / BIBB VET Chain
Thursday, 20 February 2025

VET Chain-courses: Sustainability along the supply chain

VET Chain is an interactive tool that sensitises national and international VET stakeholders to the topic of sustainability in VET. The next workshop takes place on June 26 and the next Train-the-trainer-course is scheduled for July 3 and 4 at BIBB in Bonn.

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Wednesday, 5 February 2025

New Call for Papers - Evidence-based VET policy through data reporting and data science in VET

From now until February 21, interested authors can submit articles for a publication on the topic of data reporting, data management and data science. The aim is to combine international perspectives and actively shape the global discourse.

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Thursday, 30 January 2025

New GOVET presentation: "Certification, accreditation and recognition in the German vocational education and training system"

Certification, accreditation and recognition are terms that come up again and again in international VET cooperation. The new GOVET presentation provides an introduction to this complex subject area and is suitable for information and advisory contexts.

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Photo with sustainability symbols and a Save the Date Button
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Virtual Book Launch Sustainability in Vocational Education and Training – National and International Experiences

What role does sustainability play in international VET cooperation? In December, GOVET published a publication on this topic in December 2024, which was developed in collaboration with 22 authors from eleven countries. GOVET is organising a virtual book launch for 29 January 2025.

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