The term "dual system" of vocational training was not coined until 1964 by the German Committee for Education and Training. It drew up an "Expert Report on the Vocational Training and School System." ...

Businesses in Germany seem keen to participate in vocational training. Chambers of commerce and industry support company-school partnerships and help smaller businesses train their interns. Students ...

Skeptical Americans worry that the European model requires tracking, and it’s true, German children choose at age 10 among an academic high school, a vocational track, or something in between.

German companies have been successful at training and churning out highly skilled professionals for jobs in engineering and advanced manufacturing. Now, big manufacturing states like North ...

Vocational training is at the heart of this success, and politicians in the US, from both the left and the right, have pointed to it as a system worth emulating.

In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational Training System (TVET)—a ...

Germany’s dual vocational training system, often praised as a model to follow, is in crisis, workers' representatives and employers say, while more and more skilled workers are needed to realise ...

HYDERABAD: Labour Minister G Vivek Venkatswamy on Tuesday emphasised the importance of expanding international collaboration ...

Germany's transplant-factories aren't just cranking out cars, machinery and chemicals, they're bringing a German training system increasingly seen as a way to address America's skilled labor shortage.

The Nigerian and German governments have expressed readiness to partner on implementing a dual vocational training programme with a view to reducing the high unemployment rate among youths.The ...

Volkswagen brings German-style vocational training to the US. In Germany, more than half of high school graduates go into vocational programs.