April 21, 2013
IT'S NOT JUST THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE GOING TO COLLEGE...:
Why the US is looking to Germany (Edward Luce, 4/14/13, Financial Times)
Germany channels roughly half of all high-school students into the vocational education stream from the age of 16. In the US that would be seen as too divisive, even un-American. More than 40 per cent of Germans become apprentices. Only 0.3 per cent of the US labour force does so. But with the US participation rate continuing to plummet - last month another 496,000 Americans gave up looking for work - many US politicians are scouring Germany for answers.
...many shouldn't be finishing high school. Skills will serve them better.
MORE:
Watch Repair Up Close (Jack Speer, May 20, 2002, NPR)
As Jack Speer reports for Morning Edition, the opening of the Watch Technicum in Lititz is just the latest signal of a rebirth for the high end of the watch industry. [...]"The average age of a watchmaker today in the United States is approximately 57, 58 years old," says Bethiaume. "There's plenty of watches out there that will need maintenance, with a shortage of technicians to service these pieces."
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 21, 2013 8:59 AM
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