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and development work in the area of vocational education and training is
promoted on a national level in Germany predominantly by the Federal Ministry
of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Ministry of Labour and by
the governments of the federal states. Project management agencies include
the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and
the German Aerospace Center (DLR). For the promotion and co-ordination
of VET research related to schools and universities the Bund-Länder-Kommission
für Bildungsplanung und Forschungsförderung (BLK) plays an important
role. Independent research societies and associations organise non-governmental
research on a large scale. VET research institutes have established a national
network for cooperation, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berufsbildungsforschungsnetz
(AGBFN). The main themes of current research are the supply and demand
of training places, reform of vocational education and training including
teaching methods and co-operation, promoting training for groups with special
needs, learning culture for competence development, learning regions. Key
research issues of the near future are access, transfer and progression
(credit transfer and national qualifications framework), the development
of standards of competence and quality assurance; VET in an ageing society;
the development of competence models for assessing individual learning
outcomes and for taking stock of education processes. |
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