Educational researchers calms German companies

Educational researchers calms German companies

According to an early September presented  OECD education study Germany runs the risk of being left behind in higher education. Gain only about 26 percent of all young adults after recent surveys have a university degree or master's certificate, the average of the 34 OECD member countries is 37 percent. With 46 percent of the student rate last year reached a record level in Germany while - but the OECD average is 59 percent.

In an interview  for the October issue of Techn View   puts education researcher Ernst Hartmann of the Institute for Innovation and Technology of the VDI / VDE Innovation + Technik Ltd., the negative image of Germany, however, very clear: the most used indicators in the OECD study concern "only formal educational qualifications," said Hartmann. "Formal learning is important, no question, but the fact that a company employs many graduates will still not automatically lead to good new products, the key questions are yet.. What do I do with these highly qualified people"

Germany enjoys the other hand, the structures that would foster an "informal learning in enterprises" in the company. "The data on such informal learning in the workplace but also systematically collected, but not usually been associated with innovation indicators such as patents or new products is what we have now done -. And found very interesting correlations". Accordingly, Denmark, Germany and Sweden belong to the countries with the "highest Lernintenistät" My Computer. "Then there are countries that still have a relatively high learning intensity in the work, but mediocre innovation, such as Norway, Malta and Estonia, and there are countries that reach this average level of innovation with lower educational intensities, such as Ireland, Greece, Cyprus," says Hartmann.