Demarcations between vocational and academic education and how to overcome them

Abstract

In education systems that are as highly diversified and stratified as the one inGermany the organisation of permeability between educational levels and school types and above all between vocational and higher education is particularly important. One reason is that the various interfaces that exist due to the complex architecture of the system almost inevitably lead to barriers and boandaries above all between vocational and higher (scientific) education. The cause is not so much a lack of relevant legal provisions but rather a deficit in terms of workability and pedagogical foandation of these regulations.