Report on meeting 1/2015 of the Board of BIBB held on 13 March 2015 in Bonn

The draft of the German Federal Government’s Annual Vocational Training Report for 2015 prompted the Board to consult intensively on the current training-place situation. For the first time in more than ten years, the Board adopted a Joint Statement on the Annual Vocational Training Report without amending it, as in previous years, with votes from the “benches”. Germany’s new Alliance for Initial and Continuing Vocational Training was likewise a subject of consultation. Other substantive focuses of the meeting were the integration of young foreigners into vocational education and training, and the evaluation of the Vocational Training Act currently in progress. The meeting was led by UWE SCHULZ-HOFEN, Berlin, who was deputising for the chairwoman ELKE HANNACK (DGB).