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Germany: with GOVET, the country rationalizes its advice structures to sell its vocational training system abroad
Since the last crisis, we’ve seen that young people’s access to the labor world was much safer in countries with a “dual” vocational training system: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands or...
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24 February 2014
EU: Berlin and Paris want to extend dual apprenticeship in Europe to tackle youth unemployment
While unemployment is breaking new records in southern Europe, Wolfgang Schäuble and Ursula von der Leyen, respectively Minister of Finance and Minister for Employment and Social Affairs in...
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23 May 2013
BASF and the Catalonian Government (Spain) agree to the first dual training program at the transnational scale
The chemical company BASF and the Catalonian Department of Education (Spain) have just reached an agreement by which students from a Catalonian vocational training school can pursue a dual...
22 April 2013
Spain: new Royal Decree introduces framework to develop dual vocational training
ecree No. 1529/2012 introducing the contract of training and learning based on the dual training system was published. It is meant to gradually implement the dual vocational training system in...
19 November 2012
Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices
Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...
23 August 2012
Germany: German-style apprenticeship set out to conquer the world
The ‘dual system’ on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean. In a workshop located one floor above the assembly hall of the American headquarters of the German chainsaw maker, Stihl, in Virginia Beach...
23 August 2012
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Sweden: IF Metall union forced to end industrial dispute with Tesla
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