The “International Handbook of Vocational Education and Training (IHBB)” has de- veloped into a practically related standard work for comparative VET research in the German-speaking countries. The studies concentrate on national vocational education and training and educational systems and provide an introductory insight into the gen- eral socio-economic conditions and educational policy competences in the respective countries. The Handbook presents the educational systems from a VET perspective and traces their structural and historical lines of development. The International Handbook of Vocational Education and Training was founded by Dr Uwe Lauterbach and Profes- sor Wolfgang Mitter at the German Institute for International Pedagogical Research in 1994. It originally comprised a loose-leaf compilation and has been supplemented and updated on an ongoing basis ever since.weiterlesen