Dhe state of affairs on the coaching market stays troublesome, regardless of slight indicators of restoration. Total, this 12 months’s federal schooling report, which the federal cupboard authorised on Wednesday, displays that the schooling market will not be adequately ready for the most important challenges resembling demographic change and digitization in addition to the local weather and power transition.
Although the variety of newly concluded coaching contracts rose barely by 1.2 % in 2021 and there was a slight enhance of 1.7 % within the variety of coaching programs on supply, provide and demand are nonetheless considerably weaker in a pre-Corona comparability. In 2021, for instance, nearly 10 % fewer coaching contracts have been concluded in comparison with 2019. The variety of younger individuals who requested twin vocational coaching final 12 months fell by 9.7 % in comparison with 2019. That is a brand new low since 1992, when knowledge for reunified Germany first turned obtainable.
Federal Schooling Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) referred to “building websites the place brave tackling is important”. She was involved that “the variety of college students and not using a diploma continues to be excessive and the combination of younger individuals with a migration background into coaching is lagging behind”. In comparison with the earlier 12 months, the vocational coaching report reveals a drop of 6.3 % amongst younger individuals with a refugee background who have been searching for an apprenticeship. Solely a 3rd of those candidates really began an apprenticeship.
Broaden vocational orientation to excessive colleges?
If one appears on the coaching firms, the report reveals that the – albeit modest – development within the variety of newly concluded coaching contracts extends to nearly all areas. Nonetheless, there have been declines not solely within the public sector, but additionally in business and commerce. The darkish aspect additionally consists of the truth that the variety of coaching firms fell once more in 2021, with the sharpest declines within the smallest firms – which in flip had the best difficulties in filling their coaching locations.
Total, there are nonetheless issues in matching provide and demand on the coaching market. On the finish of September 2021, the marginally greater than 63,000 vacant coaching positions have been offset by 24,600 fully unplaced candidates. “The federal authorities and the federal states should take decisive countermeasures right here,” demanded the President of the Central Affiliation of German Crafts and Trades, Hans Peter Wollseifer. Profession orientation should be prolonged to grammar colleges in all federal states. Larger efforts are additionally wanted to make vocational coaching and additional schooling extra engaging, stated Friedrich Hubert Esser, President of the Federal Institute for Vocational Training.
