At issue: are U.S. businesses likely to embrace youth apprenticeship?

Article Abstract:

A positive view of youth apprenticeship is based on the notion that US employers would support youth apprenticeship because it promises to increase the number of skilled workers, close the income gap between skilled workers and college-educated workers, encourage better performance at schools at an early age and reduce juvenile delinquency. An opposite view believes that employers are convinced to participate mainly due to persistent appeals to collective responsibility by individual schools. This was deemed insufficient to support a mass effort. There has to be a general mobilization in support of youth apprenticeship if it is to have a significant impact.

Analysis, Business and education, Industry and education

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Lessons from the German model of apprenticeship

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Proponents of youth apprenticeship in the US cite Germany's youth apprenticeship program, considered by many German business leaders as one of the main reasons behind their country's economic success. The combination of classroom and workplace instruction, called the 'dual' system, was based on the centuries-old crafts and guilds tradition and is the result of an effective partnership between the public and private sectors. German youth attending apprenticeships do not consider themselves inferior to those attending college. Two-thirds of German youths participate in some way in vocational training, and 1.8 million of them possess apprenticeship titles.

Germany, Education and state, Social policy, Education policy

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Who owns the right to the word 'apprenticeship'?

Article Abstract:

Many state officials and labor union leaders are opposing the use of the word 'apprentice' to refer to the school-to-work transition programs that are being viewed increasingly as a solution to the lack of skills in the US labor force. These individuals argue that the word should be reserved for the thousands of registered apprentice programs which were the results of collective-bargaining agreements around the country and which have enjoyed recognition by state and federal regulations for many decades. A proliferation of unregulated apprenticeship programs could give a bad impression of apprenticeship programs as a whole.

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