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Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in German (I)VET for the Health Care Sector

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In Germany, VET is mainly organised according to the ‘Dual System’, meshing theoretical education at school and practical instruction at the workplace. Dual apprenticeships in Germany exist in nearly all branches of the economy including the professions and parts of the civil service. Every year, about 600,000 adolescents enter the dual system (for figures see Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 2007: 11). All in all, more than 1.8 million young people – with a female share of 41.5% – are learning their trades through the Dual System.

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    Learning areas follow a new curriculum concept in the German VET system. The main idea of this new approach is to reconstruct the curricula at schools in order to reflect actual work tasks and their context at school. Traditional school subjects are therefore transformed into cross-curricular approaches and organised into new patterns (Deitmer et al. 2003; Fischer and Bauer 2007; Sloane 2004).

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Heinemann, L., Deitmer, L. (2009). Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Data in German (I)VET for the Health Care Sector. In: Visscher, A.J. (eds) Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9527-6_8

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