More and more school-leavers are choosing to study. At the same time employers search in vain for young recruits in occupations for which a university degree is not required.
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Digitalization is leading to a growing need for training. Firms which have digitalized further are thus more likely to be active in further training and to invest more time and money in developing their workers’ skills.
In 2016 some 85 per cent of companies in Germany were active in continuing vocational training, using a broad mix of methods.
Even though the four analysed countries are very different in terms of their starting points and their demographic, economic and institutional framework conditions, they all face the same challenge: designing a vocational education and training system that makes the country future-proof.
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Economist for Vocational Training and Continuing Vocational Education and Training
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