German apprenticeships: A model for the World?

Jascha Fauss could be looking at a job for life at Mercedes-Benz

Jascha Fauss may be doing the kind of thing that nearly two-thirds of young Germans do when they leave full-time education.

Yet he realises that, by European standards, he’s lucky. Nineteen-year-old Jascha is almost at the end of a three year, on-the-job apprenticeship at the giant Mercedes-Benz factory just outside Stuttgart in southern Germany.

His trade is mecatronics – a modern combination of mechanical and electronic engineering. It will set him up for what may well be a job for life – if he chooses to stay with Mercedes, which the vast majority of apprentices like him do.

By Nigel Cassidy Europe business correspondent, BBC News, southern Germany

Full Story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16159943#story_continues_1

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