topic Education

Continuing training

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.

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  topic Academia

  Continuing Academic Education

  Institutions of higher education and other educational institutions offer continuing academic education in a number of different forms - ranging from individual courses to study programmes lasting several years and leading to a degree (cf. National Education Report 2012, particularly p. 149f.). Participation is not only open to people who have already completed a university degree but also to people who meet the conditions for admission in other ways. Continuing academic education serves to develop people's own potential to secure their jobs and careers within the framework of lifelong learning and is a decisive precondition for translating research into innovations and employment. It strengthens Germany's position as an industrial nation.
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  topic 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.
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