Can foreign immigrants in Germany get some aid from the government to learn German?
1) “The Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) administers public funded professional training programmes. As shown in Table 2, 2,713,000 migrant workers liable to social security contributions worked in Germany in 2006. The number of foreign participants whose applications for a BA training programme were approved or who took a test to prove their occupational qualifications rose from 98,304 persons in 2005 and 121,705 persons in 2006 to 144,944 persons in 2007. In comparison, the total number of all such persons (i.e. including German citizens) rose from 1,054,547 in 2005, 1,247,838 in 2006 to 1,363,376 in 2007. The comparison indicates that the ratio of foreigners in BA qualifying measures slowly rose from 9.3% in 2005 to 10.6% in 2007. Since 2004, BA has furthermore organised language courses to improve the language skills of migrant workers.” “After the new law took effect, integration courses for all immigrants were established. These courses are conducted by pr
