Interesting article; thanks for posting it. I don't know that much about Germany's apprenticeship system except that it's a much more well established and accepted concept than in the U.S.
Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has an internship program where engineering undergrads spend a semester working at a real company. The companies benefit from free labor, and the students benefit from real world experience and resume building. It's amazing to me that this system isn't more widely adopted. Some people claim the students should be paid a "fair salary" or some such arguments.
Anyway, the Germans must be doing something right. Germany is still the #3 or #4 industrial producer in the world (China has surpassed them in recent years) and their products are still very high quality. Apart from the obvious example of top notch automobiles, I'm mostly familiar with German stage equipment -- microphone stands, wireless systems, instrument cases, etc.--and I've found them to be just really good quality, designed to last, and very usable.
That is actulay very common in the UK to do an extended period working for a real company as part of your degree we had some very good university students at BT including one from ENA!
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Interesting article; thanks for posting it. I don't know that much about Germany's apprenticeship system except that it's a much more well established and accepted concept than in the U.S.
Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has an internship program where engineering undergrads spend a semester working at a real company. The companies benefit from free labor, and the students benefit from real world experience and resume building. It's amazing to me that this system isn't more widely adopted. Some people claim the students should be paid a "fair salary" or some such arguments.
Anyway, the Germans must be doing something right. Germany is still the #3 or #4 industrial producer in the world (China has surpassed them in recent years) and their products are still very high quality. Apart from the obvious example of top notch automobiles, I'm mostly familiar with German stage equipment -- microphone stands, wireless systems, instrument cases, etc.--and I've found them to be just really good quality, designed to last, and very usable.
That is actulay very common in the UK to do an extended period working for a real company as part of your degree we had some very good university students at BT including one from ENA!