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After the federal elections, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has taken on a new organisational structure. For the first time, its activities in further education are now bundled together in a seperate department (»Lifelong Learning, Further Education«), thus enabling the ministry to »speak with one voice«. On top of this, the superior department is »University, Further Education«, which shows that the two are considered as equivalent from the organisationalpolitical viewpoint.
Dohmen berichtet über neue Entwicklungstrends und Zukunftsperspektiven der Erwachsenenbildung in der USA.
For 30 years, the author has been director of the communal adult education institute “Volkshochschule” at a middle-size town in Southern Germany. In 1998, the costs of 3 million DM were financed jointly by the town (50%), the participants of the courses (40%) and the Land Baden-Württemberg (10%). In the next three years, the "Volkshochschule" has to reduce the communal subsidy by 12%. The article deals with the financial challenges the institute faces in its new situation of competition at the …
The rigid division between the three subsystems of continuing vocational training in Germany (continuing vocational training for employees, continuing vocational training for the unemployed, individual continuing vocational training) hinders the implementation of an integrated labour market and qualification policy. As a result an effective and efficient use of the financial means for training (combination of financing resources) is not possible.
Klaus Luther, Diplom-Volkswirt, ist Leiter der Unterabteilung „Allgemeine Bildung, Lebenslanges Lernen“ im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. Zuvor war er Assistent am Institut für Regionalforschung an der Universität Kiel, wissenschaftlich koordinierender Sekretär der Enquete-Kommission „Zukünftige Bildungspolitik – Bildung 2000“, Consultant bei der OECD und lange Jahre in der Fraktion der SPD zuständig für Bildungsfragen. Mit Prof. Ekkehard Nuissl spricht Klaus Luther über das Progr…