DualReg

Locally rooted – worldwide linked up: Mexico – Success conditions for transfer of vocational education and training and dual practices

For several decades, there has been an increasing interest in high-quality education in Mexico, which combines practice-relevant competencies through the integration of school-based and company-based training.

Dual vocational education practices should help with the modernization of the Mexican vocational education system. Moreover, vocational education can support subsidiaries of German companies with a focus on skilled workers needed for worldmarket production. In Mexico, especially in the Central Highlands, there is already a well-functioning interplay of different stakeholders, which has yet still to be developed or deepened in other regions, such as the manufacturing region in Northern Mexico, and in the major tourism destinations on the coast.

This project explores the conditions of success for international vocational education co-operation in Mexico. To specify the conditions of success, a regionally differentiating view is necessary, which, at the same time, interlinks the local, the national and the international level of cooperation in a multi-scalar manner. The project puts this into concrete terms for the manufacturing region in and around Mexico City (as a region experienced in co-operation in vocational education) and compares it to the situation in the Tijuana urban area with the assembly industries, and to the touristic regions of Quintana Roo and Baja California.

The project explores conditions for sustainably successful cooperation in vocational education, both for manufacturing and tourism industries. The project highlights best practice examples of cooperation in vocational education as well as potential for new and deeper cooperation. The results shall provide sound recommendations for international vocational training activities regarding further countries of the Global South, which also depend on (assembly) industries and the tourism industry.

Further information about the projects from the BMBF funding line can also be found on the website of the metaproject INVET. In addition, you will find an interview with Prof. Dr. Martina Fuchs, who gives a short overview of the project "DualReg".