Developing Skills for Employability with German Partners
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Governments
Governments hold a wealth of knowledge on skills development, and are increasingly realizing the value of learning from each others’ experiences. Their policy documents, programme evaluations, and research findings contain their experience and ideas on how to better link skills to employment
Access to training
Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.
This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business.
Training quality and relevance
Case studies and good practices
Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.
Vocational education and training established the direction of travel for companies, regions and entire countries. The availability of skilled workers determines the level of performance and the ability to innovate within a globally competitive environment. This has an effect both on the economic power of a country and on the kind of social stability which is able to offer the foundations of prosperity for broad sections of the population.
Each of the ‘Developing Skills for Employability with German Partners’ brochures presents eight vocational education and training success stories of German and international partners. With its wide range of training offers and its strong emphasis on employability, ‘Training – Made in Germany’ has the potential to successfully support and promote on-going transformation processes of training systems in these regions through transnational cooperation projects.