An informal meeting to “kick-start the development of vocational training in the European Union”. This is how Germany’s Federal Minister of Education, Anja Karliczek, described the meeting with her European counterparts on 16 and 17 September.
This is the first time that the ministers have met physically since the start of the German EU Council Presidency, whose schedule has been greatly disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Three topics were on the ministers’ agenda: the effects of...