No. 1/1999
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No. 1/1999 |
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The Youth - Education - Employment Forum has drawn up a memorandum on ways and means of overcoming the training crisis. The Forum consists of independent experts from science, industry, administration and social work. In 20 points the group recommends ways and means of implementing in Germany the goals of the European Employment Summit of November 1997. These points include offering young persons a job, training or re-training after six months of unemployment at the latest. The new German government has also included this goal in its emergency programme to reduce youth unemployment (see page XX).
In its recommendations the Forum concentrates on a number of key factors which include more flexibility, permeability of vocational training, recognition, modularization and transparency of qualifications. The memorandum also recommends in-company training above and beyond current needs, training commitments in all collective agreements and subsidies for training, plus intensive promotion of young people with educational and social deficits. The contact address of the Forum is Forum Jugend - Bildung - Arbeit, Freudenberg Stiftung, Freudenbergstraße 2, D-69469 Weinheim, Tel. (49-6201) 17498, Fax (49-6201) 13262.Source: BIBB/CEDEFOP/SK |
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