Continuing education should become even more commonplace in the future—for businesses, employees, and job seekers, including those with low qualifications, older individuals, or working mothers.
Continuing education should become even more commonplace in the future—for businesses, employees, and job seekers, including those with low qualifications, older individuals, or working mothers. To sustainably improve individual employment opportunities and ensure companies always have access to well-qualified professionals, employees must engage in further training throughout their careers. The state can support this through incentive mechanisms such as target-group-oriented premium and voucher models, without—through new regulations or additional leave entitlements for employees—restricting companies' flexibility or unilaterally imposing costs on them. To further increase the participation of older employees in vocational training, offerings need to take greater account of older individuals' learning behaviours.