Educating for Business in a Global Society: The Strategic relevance of Cooperative Education for Germany's Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Stephen A. Engelking MBA

Germany has started to look for new ways of training its future business personnel. The innovative University of Cooperative Education (Berufsakademie or BA as it is called in German and now renamed as the 'Dual Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW)' in that state) educates student trainees as opposed to traditional business apprenticeships. This investigation attempts to discover whether this repre…