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Germany is good at training its workers mostly because of one the last if not the last industrialized country in Europe. UK and France thought industry as dead
by djulius 12y ago
Germany is good at training its workers mostly because of one the last if not the last industrialized country in Europe.
UK and France thought industry as dead decades ago and lost their know-how by moving plants overseas.
Meanwhile Germany has kept his knowledge in-house and trains the best technician, ingenieur especially in machinenbau (mechanical engineering).
A decade ago at the KIT, machinenbau graduate were most sought-after by companies than computer scientist.
(btw I'm french)
- pjc50 12y agoI don't think this is entirely true, the UK has plenty of manufacturing. It's just "lean" or capital-intensive. Tends to be small runs of high-value products rather than mass manufacturing. What has mostly gone is the "factory floor", large businesses with lots of workers to engage in labour disputes with. You can do car manufacturing in the UK so long as senior management culture isn't British or it's a tiny luxury car company. But British Leyland are as dead as old Detroit.
- arethuza 12y agoThe UK manufactures a lot of stuff - manufacturing output in the UK doubled from 1958 and 2007 - it's just that we don't have many people employed in manufacturing anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_Kin...