ABSTRACT
The 1965 Law was formulated in the context of a growing drive to integrate the educational system into a 'comprehensive social system' characterized above all by the harnessing of the scientific and technological revolution to the task of providing for the material needs of society. In 1966 two separate drafts for a new law on vocational training were put forward, one by the SPD and one jointly by the CDU/CSU and the FDP. These eventually came to fruition in 1969 when a law drafted by a select committee to incorporate elements of both proposals was passed by an overwhelming majority in the Bundestag. In the DDR the course of development in the later 1960s was unspectacular by comparison with previous periods. The main thrust was towards revising the school curriculum in accordance with long-term planning and the current interpretation of the needs of the 'scientific and technological revolution'.
