Quality apprenticeships: The new degree?

摘要

More policymakers are looking beyond tertiary education to apprenticeships as a possible way of strengthening the labor market and improving job prospects for the young. A young person starting out today might never get a chance to present a masterpiece. The statistics are harrowing. The OECD estimates that around 20% of young people in Italy, Mexico and Spain are neither working nor in education and training. In Greece and Turkey that figure rises to 27%. In desperation over their repeated failure to find a job, many young people give up. Others continue on the treadmill of internships, and are often unpaid, despite the fact that they carry out the same tasks as their salaried colleagues. The scheme is successful in part because it established apprenticeships in fields without such traditions, and in which future job growth is likely.