Education
13.09.2006

Continuing training

The BMBF supports workers and companies in their efforts to rise to new challenges confronting them in the working world. It supports continuing vocational training and upgrading training. In general continuing education, the BMBF supports the broad development of lifelong, competence-developing learning up to and including the social environment and transitions to continuing vocational training by means of support for innovative projects.

Continuing vocational training

Growing numbers of Germans attend updating and upgrading training programmes, as well as retraining and on-the-job training courses, in order to secure their jobs and improve their career and income prospects. By introducing further training regulations, the BMBF wants to make the system of further training more transparent and the examination system more flexible. Additional qualifications and individual further training modules and skills acquired during the work process are increasingly to be considered in granting access to further training examinations.

  • Academia

    Continuing education at institutions of higher education

    Continuing education provides institutions of higher education with an opportunity to develop programmes which are interesting and useful for both industry and science. Because even for academics, qualification no longer ends when the doctor's cap has been earned. And the knowledge of higher education teachers is also in demand among specialists in companies.
    more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/349.php)

  • Education

    Distance Learning

    For decades, distance learning has been an established method for continuing training and obtaining education qualifications as a mature student by self-study. For reasons of consumer protection, the Law on the Protection of Participants in Distance Education also applies to e-learning programmes.
    more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/422.php)

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