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...provide them. Clement wants to do away with the qualification for 62 of the 94 professions that require it. Higher-risk trades such as heating engineering and plumbing would retain the Meisterbrief, but for the rest, 10 years of job experience would allow anyone who had successfully completed an apprenticeship to start their own company. Clement hopes the move, which will have its first reading in the Bundestag in early summer, will raise Germany's low percentage of self-employed, 9.3%, to the European average of 12.3% and reduce the number of people who work in these professions...
Francois-Henri worked his way up through several of the family businesses over 15 years, in what amounted to an extended apprenticeship, before his father allowed him to join Artemis in 2001. The two men say that they work closely on decisions but that "it's not a tandem that can last for eternity, because you need only one person in charge," says Francois. Of his son he says, "It's clear he will take the reins." Their biggest challenge now is to earn a return on their $5 billion investment in Gucci at a time of worldwide economic weakness...
Alas, universities today are not that perfect. At its most imperfect, the apprenticeship model has been perverted into a cheap labor source for the university. In a difficult economy, graduate students are forced to supplement meager stipends with more teaching-assistant work, little of which is managed in the apprentice-like manner it is supposed to be. Working long hours just to make ends meet, with little job security from one semester to the next, it is no surprise that graduate students across the country are turning to a historically successful method for improving working conditions...
...best when ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found in an account of Mailer’s apprenticeship to his craft at Harvard); and the wrenching formulation, “those who want experience, learn to live; those who don’t, write...
That this macabre imagination is coupled with dazzling craftsmanship gives the designer his heat. Beneath the shock of his antics is a natural talent coupled with technique acquired as a teenage trainee on Savile Row, the London street celebrated for handmade suits. After an apprenticeship of Dickensian harshness, McQueen harnessed his skills to the construction of cunning jackets, curved to just conceal the breasts, and trousers, called "bumsters," slung so low as to be rude...