GSS Session III Ms Heike Hoeher -- Structuring Sector Skill Council: Experience Sharing

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Responsibilities of the German Chambers of Skilled Crafts in Vocational Education & Training - Conclusions for the Formation of SSCs in India

FICCI Global Skills Summit 2011

Heike Hoeher-Crohn Frankfurt Rhein Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts

15 September 2011Responsibilities of the German Chambers of Skilled Crafts in Vocational Education & Training - Conclusions for the Formation of SSCs in India

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What India is looking for:National Skill Development Policy 2009: Key tasks of SSC

Conducting Research Delivery Mechanism Quality Assurance

1. Create skill database1. Develop & update existing course modules

1. Streamline certification framework

2. Develop sector specific competency standards

2. Train trainers in Industry & Institutes

2. Certification tests for employees

3. Act as Career Guidance Centre for Industry

3. Train existing employees3. Certification test for trainers at institutes

4. Benchmark international standards

4. Develop training delivery mechanisms

4. Accreditation of sector specific and related course

5. Productivity analysis of human resources

6. Identifying ‘technology’ to be taken up for teaching


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Contents

1. Legal Framework

2. Dual training

3. Competent Body=chamber

4. Curricula development

5. Results

6. Train-the-trainer

7. accreditation


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1. Legal Framework


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Legal Framework: Vocational Training Act (BBiG):

http://www.bmbf.de/pubRD/BBiG_englisch_050805.pdf

Information on Crafts Code (HwO): http://www.zdh.de/en/trade-and-crafts-code.html


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2. Dual Training


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3. Competent Body


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National Law Länder Law

Division of ResponsibilitiesFederation - Länder

Training within the Company Training at school

Who decides?-Decision level-

Who delivers training?-pedagogic decision level-

Ministeries (BMBH, BMWi)KMK- Conference of the German cultural ministers

Ministries of Education of the Länder

Competent body (chamber) School supervisory boardWho supervises?-Administration level-

company Vocational school


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Tasks of the competent body:

• Establish vocational training committees

• Reviewing the training agreement

• Registering, modifying and deleting training agreements

• Issuing regulations pertaining to training (for example, issuing examination ordinances)

• Reviewing the suitability of instructors and training facilities;

• Administering trainees' intermediate and final examinations;

• Advising instructors and trainees, monitoring execution of training via training advisors


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Vocational Training Committee:

Vocational

Training

Committee

6 employers'

representatives

6 employees'

representatives

6 vocational-school

instructors

(advisory)

Elected by General Assembly of the chamber


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The Vocational Training Committee

• must be informed and heard about all important matters related to vocational training

• adopts legal provisions which are then issued by the chamber


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4. Curricula development


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One occupation- many skills: Precision machinists

•plan and control work processes, monitor and evaluate work results,

•apply standards and guidelines for assuring product quality and contribute to the continual improvement of work processes in the company,

•measure and test mechanical and physical parameters,

•produce parts and components by means of manual and mechanical manufacturing processes,

•create and optimize programmes and operate numerically-controlled machines, equipment and plant,

•assemble, dismantle and take into operation machines, equipment, devicesand plant including associated control equipment and explain them to customers, carry out servicing work as well as fault-finding and malfunction searches and maintain machines, equipment, devices, systems and plant, including control equipment.

http://www.bibb.de/en/ausbildungsprofil_1881.htm


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Training Regulation (ABO)

target- Broad basic qualification required for each occupation

- Determine knowledge and skills

- Flexible towards situation in company

- Task-based learning

minimum content 1) Designation of the occupation

2) Duration of training (according to law 2-3 years, but up to 3 ½ years possible)

3) Training occupation profile (occupational skills, knowledge, qualifications at a glance)

4) Overall training plan (syllabus and timetable)

5) Examination requirements (time, duration, contents of interim and final exams)

„Give me five!!“

central aim:

promoting employability in a changing

workplace


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Legal development process...

Training Regulation (ABO)

Application to define a new or change an existing training regulation (via employers‘ associations)

BMBFBIBB

experts (3 employers, 3 employees)

KMK Conference of the German cultural ministers Expert teachers

(6 teachers of different „Länder“)ABBi-Arbeitsstelle

Keep in mind!

draft Training regulation

draft Framework curriculum

Federal/Länder co-ordination committeeAgreement?

Employers‘ associationsApproval?

Responsible Federal Ministry: issuing and publishing the new training regulation

(BMWi)

KMK (Conference of the German cultural ministers): recommendation of framework curriculum

1 teacher of the Länder, 1 representative KMK, 1 observer

Implementation viaLänder! (education is not national but länder responsibility)


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How does a curriculum look like?

Training regulation for precision mechanic:

2 parts:

1. Legal provisions

2. Structure with regard to contents and timeframes

1) Designation of the occupation

2) Duration of training (according to law 2-3 years, but up to 3 ½ years possible)

3) Occupational profile (occupational skillsF+K+F des Berufes auf einen Blick!)

4) Overall training plan (syllabus & timetable)

5) Examination requirements (time, duration, contents of interim and final exam)


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5. Comparing the results


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Some facts and figures:

Young people in dual training (2008): 1,613,343

Proportion of trainees offered permanent employment after completion of training: 61%

info: BiBB VET Data Report Germany 2010


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Unemployment of Young People in Europe

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6. Train the trainers


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Train the trainers

Instructor/ Master Teacher


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Who can be an instructor?

§ 28 I 2 BBiG Vocational Training Act:

Trainees may only be trained by persons who have the necessary personal and technical qualifications.

Suitable employers/

instructors

Personal qualification

Technical qualification:

Vocational skills AND

Teaching skills


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Technical qualification: Vocational skills (s.30 BBiG)

Instructors need to

• have passed the final examination in a technical field corresponding to the training occupation

• have been employed in a practical capacity for an appropriate period in their own occupation (he who does the job teaches the job)


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Technical qualification: Teaching skills (s.30 BBiG)

S.2 AEVO: Instructors need to be able to

plan execute supervise

the training independently

Which means:

1.Check conditions for training and plan training

2.Prepare training and take part in appointing trainees

3.Accomplish training and

4.Conclude training


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The role of the chamber (1):

Offering classes to obtain necessary technical and teaching skills:

Preparation for master craftsman‘s exam:

• Professional Practice Part I

• Profession related Theory Part II

• Economics and Law Part III

• Profession related pedagogy Part IV

Vocational skills

Teaching skills


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Appoint examination committee (5 members):

• 1 chairman (no training in relevant occupation)

• 2 master craftsmen (relevant occupation with own business)

• 1 expert worker with master craftsman’s exam and working in relevant occupation

• 1 expert (economics/law, no training in relevant occupation)


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organise examination, issue certificates, organise master craftsman awards ceremony etc…


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7. Accreditation


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Accreditation

Personal

DIN 17024

Systemic

DIN 17021


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How the German state supervises the quality of continual training in Germany

AZWV (Anerkennungs- und Zulassungsverordnung Weiterbildung) = recognition and accreditation concerning continual training

•legal norm = overriding industrial norms

•Without AZWV-accreditation educational institutions are not allowed to work for state agencies

•The chamber has this accreditation


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What India is looking for:National Skill Development Policy 2009: Key tasks of SSC

Conducting Research Delivery Mechanism Quality Assurance

1. Create skill database Nat1. Develop & update existing

course modules Ch1. Streamline certification framework Nat

2. Develop sector specific competency standards Nat

2. Train trainers in Industry &

Institutes Ch2. Certification tests for

employees Ch3. Act as Career Guidance

Centre for Industry Ch3. Train existing employees

Ch3. Certification test for trainers

at institutes Ch4. Benchmark international

standards Ch4. Develop training delivery

mechanisms Ch4. Accreditation of sector

specific and related course Ch5. Productivity analysis of human resources Nat

6. Identifying ‘technology’ to be

taken up for teaching Ch


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Contact 1:

Heike Hoeher-Crohn

Frankfurt-Rhein-Main Chamber of Skilled Crafts

Bockenheimer Landstr. 21

D-60325 Frankfurt am Main

+49 69 97172-204 (Tel.)

+49 69 97172-5204 (Fax)

[email protected]

www.hwk-rhein-main.de


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Contact 2:

Hans-Gerhard Reh

iMOVE Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Robert-Schuman-Platz 3

D-53175 Bonn

Tel.: +49 (0)228 107-1767

Fax: +49 (0)228 107-2895

E-Mail: [email protected] www.imove-germany.de

Juergen Maennicke

Senior Consultant to iMOVEEDUCON - International Vocational Education Consultancy & Marketing

Zur Marktflagge 35D-10247 Berlin / GERMANYPhone: +49-30-4227190Cellphone: +49-172-9793978E-mail: [email protected]

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GSS Session III Ms Heike Hoeher -- Structuring Sector Skill Council: Experience Sharing