Vocational training

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12 April 2023 Vocational training in the dual system: number of new apprenticeship contracts slightly up in 2022

468,900 people in Germany concluded a new apprenticeship contract within the dual system (enterprise/vocational school) in 2022. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of 0.6% compared with the previous year (2021: 466,200 new contracts). For the second year in a row, the number of apprenticeship contracts newly concluded rose slightly after having declined strongly in the Covid year of 2020 (463,300 new contracts). The number of new apprenticeship contracts was down 8% on 2019, however, and continued to be substantially lower than before the Covid-19 pandemic (2019: 510,900 new contracts).

4 April 2023 Fewer new apprenticeship contracts in long-term care in 2022

20 March 2023 Higher number of new participants in qualifying programmes between school and apprenticeship in 2022 for the first time since 2016

15 September 2022 Foreign professional qualifications: recognition up 5% in 2021

30 August 2022 Vocational training in the dual system: number of new apprenticeship contracts remained at a historically low level in 2021

26 July 2022 Apprenticeships in long-term care, 2021: 5% more new apprenticeship contracts than in the previous year

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