In der Weiterbildung wird in der letzten Zeit verstärkt die Professionalisierung – insbesondere des Weiterbildungspersonals – ins Blickfeld genommen. Unbekannt war bisher jedoch, welche Möglichkeiten Weiterbildner/innen haben, dem eigenen Fortbildungsbedarf Rechnung zu tragen. Die Ende 2005 in Betrieb genommene Datenbank QUALIDAT bietet mit über 2.000 Veranstaltungen erstmals einen Überblick über einen Ausschnitt des Fortbildungsangebotes und ermöglicht u. a. Aussagen über Themen, Träger und Ko…
Seit dem Jahr 2000 ist ein massiver und kontinuierlicher Einbruch der Teilnahmen an Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien zu verzeichnen. Ein besonders starker Rückgang lässt sich für die berufsbezogenen Computerkurse feststellen. Richard Stang geht den Ursachen auf den Grund, benennt strukturelle Probleme der Weiterbildungseinrichtungen und weist auf mögliche Alternativen hin.
Einleitendes und aktuelles zur inhaltlichen Verklammerung der drei Begriffe.
Vocational continuing education is becoming more significant in modern employment biographies. A growing range of work-based study programmes and the recent opening tendency for persons holding vocational qualifications attracts attention to universities as providers of continuing education. Still, academic formats play a comparatively small role in the market of continuing education. The report explores the reasons for the low acceptance of academic continuing education. For this purpose, 72 p…
The rising importance of continuing education in the knowledge-based society is undisputed, but the broad organisational and legal area of continuing education has not been surveyed adequately to date in statistical terms. This article provides an overview of the heterogeneous landscape of providers and explains the existing data situation. Following this, the problems associated with a separation between providers of vocational from general education are discussed. Finally, the current changes…
The latest number of the Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (»Further Education Report System«) of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research marks a trend reversal: whereas in the last periods under review an increase in the attendance of further education courses was to be observed, currently attendance is regressive by five percent points – particularly in general further education. The author presumes that one reason for this is education’s focussing on the labour market perspective, an atti…
Justice and the right to continuing education Education opportunities are unfairly distributed. In the area, too, of continuing education there are disadvantaged groups of persons who especially have already suffered discrimination during their initial vocational education and training. The demand for equal opportunities which dates back to Aristotle and John Rawls implies that everyone who suffers as a result of insufficient or unsatisfactory results in their initial training should have a…
Vocational continuing education by gainfully employed persons – the explanatory power of activity-related features for continuing education behaviour Socio-demographic, company and employment data is often used to explain continuing education behaviour of individuals. Even though continuing education needs arise directly in the job context, job-related aspects are less frequently taken into account – not least due to the availability of data. This has been made possible, however, by a repres…
