For seven years now, the Donor Committee for dual VET (DC dVET) has worked successfully on the topic of dual VET in development cooperation, and the members have agreed on a continued and intensified engagement. Together with you, we want to take stock [...]
We are glad to inform you that due to raising demand, some of our key publications have been translated into French and Spanish. The Working Tool on Engaging the Business Sector in VET and its respective questionnaire are already available in German, E [...]
New technologies are a great opportunity for VET in development cooperation according to most visitors to our website. This is the result of a non-representative survey that we conducted on our website from mid-2020 to mid-2021. About 80% of the partic [...]
DC dVET is glad to share information on a new and interesting offer by GIZ Academy. GIZ has recently launched the TVET Academy to streamline its support to continuous development of technical, pedagogical, managerial and leadership competences for a la [...]
In addition to an overview of its own publications, as well as the relevant publications of the four members, DC dVET also offers a virtual library with relevant publications on the topic of (dual) VET in development cooperation. In different languages [...]
Permeability and flexibility of education systems play a central role in the attractiveness of dual VET. At this year's GIZ Thementag, the DC dVET Secretariat co-organized a workshop on "How can education systems become more permeable and flexible?" to [...]
From September 28 to November 13, 2020, the DC dVET participated in an online course on "Quality Apprenticeships", organized by CINTERFOR, the ILO's Inter-American Center for Knowledge Development in Vocational Education. The CINTERFOR toolkit on the t [...]
In the DC dVET member countries, continuous monitoring and scientifically based evaluation of the vocational training systems has long been used to make evidence-based decisions. In times of crisis, this is particularly important to identify where the [...]
Since 2012, the ILO has been working on the concept of so-called "quality apprenticeships", which have some similarities with the elements of dual VET. For example, the existence of a training contract, the payment of an apprentice's wage and the high [...]
A major advantage of dual VET systems over other models is the direct involvement of the business sector. However, this is also associated with the risk that companies may react in crises by offering fewer apprenticeship positions. Particularly in part [...]