Improving the accessibility of higher education by means of credit transfer and transition measures

In the years 2005 to 2009 and 2011 to 2014, a total of 31 development projects were supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on the basis of two lines of funding under the acronym ANKOM, the objective being to analyse and improve permeability between vocational and higher education. The summary of results in this article focuses on the credit transfer procedures developed and structurally embedded, the transitional measures and continuing region-specific developments, as well as the relationship between vocational and higher education. The article concludes with strands of development and visions.