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Enquiry Abstract The presentation will concentrate on developments in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK giving some examples of developments and practices. The presentation will also discuss recent debates in Germany on qualifications frameworks and the value of apprenticeship and general school qualifications. This seminar is a good opportunity for Hong Kong policy makers and practitioners to hear about these important latest developments. Speaker Thomas Deissinger, born in 1958, studied at the University of Mannheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany) where he also took his Ph.D in 1991. He was in charge of a temporary professorship at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Nuernberg (Bavaria/Germany) before becoming Professor of Business and Economics Education (Wirtschaftspaedagogik) at the University of Konstanz (Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany) in 1998. His duties outside the university system include lectures and seminars with the German Foundation of International Development (DSE), now InWEnt GmbH, in Mannheim, in the field of VET in developing countries. He has specialised in vocational training policy and comparative research activities in the area of VET. Research interests include didactical issues and the history of VET, as well as school-based VET and practice firms in vocational schools. Several of his publications are devoted to the nature and development of the VET systems in the UK and Australia from a comparative perspective. Currently, Thomas Deissinger is also a member of a working committee dealing with the implementation of a German National Qualfications Framework. |
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