Press release No. 128 of 16 March 2021
WIESBADEN – In 2020, 238,000 young people started a qualifying programme of the transition sector between school and apprenticeship in Germany. The aim is to acquire basic vocational knowledge or to obtain a secondary general or intermediate school certificate through these programmes in order to improve the chances of securing an apprenticeship. Based on provisional results from integrated reporting on education and training, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of new participants in transition sector programmes decreased by 4.7% on 2019. The declining trend thus continued. In 2005, there had been approximately 418,000 new participants in transition sector programmes, with the number going down continuously except for the year 2016.
