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Germany is still strong on the apprentice model, but even here there's a shift towards universities. Now companies face an apprentice-shortage and they started
by pgeorgi 12y ago
Germany is still strong on the apprentice model, but even here there's a shift towards universities.
Now companies face an apprentice-shortage and they started actively recruiting university drop-outs to fill the ranks. At least it's not an expensive experiment for those kids, given that tuition costs max out at about 1000 EUR/year.
- watwut 12y agoAlthough German universities were meant to teach things that are going to be useful later on. They were not intended to give "well rounded experience" people these days talk about without being useful to chosen career.