Employment agency boss Andrea Nahles has called on the federal states to forward data on school dropouts to the authorities. “To date, the Federal Agency does not even have complete data on those who leave school without a qualification, although we have been demanding this for years and there has even been a federal legal basis for this since 2020,” said the CEO of the Federal Employment Agency to the editorial network Germany ( RND). “Bremen, Hamburg and Bavaria all provide us with data, everyone else doesn’t.”
Every year, 47,000 young people leave school without a degree, Nahles said. “If you know that the unemployment rate for people without a school or vocational qualification is around 20 percent, but that of those with a school or vocational qualification is only three percent, you can imagine the challenges that the education system imposes on us year after year.” Nahles also said that career orientation in school needs to start much earlier, “preferably in fifth grade.” The head of the employment agency demanded that regular professional internships should become compulsory in all types of schools.
