Support Courses Facilitate Entry into an Occupation

Abstract

"MBSE (Measures for Vocational Training and Social Assimilation) forever or never more?—On continuation of vocational training of foreign-born youth" is the question raised in an article entitled "Youth—Profession—Society," published in 1987 in the context of the situation at the time, when the MBSE project was expiring and the future of timely and appropriate help to foreign-born youngsters in assimilating a vocation was uncertain. There were many occasionally hectic and very controversial discussions during that year and the following year between the Federal Office for Labor, the ministries, and the sponsors of these measures. The objective was not to preserve the MBSE, but to "ensure the qualification and the solidity of vocational preparation and vocational training of foreign-born youngsters … who in our view have a claim to special support."