Revista Tempo do Mundo (Jul 2022)

THE GERMAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM: INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEMENTARITIES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

  • Felipe Vella Pateo,
  • Sandro Pereira Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.38116/rtm28art10
Journal volume & issue
no. 28
pp. 269 – 296

Abstract

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The goal of this study is to analyze the functioning of the skill formation regime in Germany in the light of institutional complementarities, as well as to verify the responses that the actors involved in its operation have been presenting to adapt it to changes in economic reality. It was possible to verify that the collectivist functioning of the system is being pressured through the reduction of participation in the number of companies and the flexibilization and modularization of qualification regimes, with the creation or strengthening of new qualification modalities that escape the state regulatory capacity. However, faced with this diagnosis, there is an active posture of the government and social partners participating in the management of the Federal Institute of Qualification in seeking solutions including state support for the provision of vacancies by small and medium-sized enterprises and attempts to increase the incidence on unregulated forms of qualification.

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