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...Private-sector apprenticeships have long been a mainstay of Germany's robust vocational-education program - so much so that in 2004, 58% of students finished high school with three-year training contracts in hand. Historically, more than two-thirds of the trainees end up with permanent job offers by the time those contracts are up. And despite increasing pressure from globalization and a shrinking labor market at home, 23% of all German companies continue to offer apprenticeships, a remarkable statistic, given that it takes into account every one-man shop as well as every megacorporation...
...much pressure. I think that is finished. It's dépassé. It is time to move on. Thibaud Boutin 26, graduate student in evolutionary biology, University of Paris South In France we need reform, especially on the bureaucratic level. There's a general sclerosis in the public sector, and it's no different in big companies. But this law isn't the answer. It was forced down our throats, it creates job insecurity and it's discriminatory. In countries like the U.S., England or Switzerland, where they have a very liberal economic system, or even in the Scandinavian...
...attention comes against a backdrop of rising peril for dropouts. If their grandparents' generation could find a blue-collar niche and prosper, the latest group is immediately relegated to the most punishing sector of the economy, where whatever low-wage jobs haven't yet moved overseas are increasingly filled by even lower-wage immigrants. Dropping out of high school today is to your societal health what smoking is to your physical health, an indicator of a host of poor outcomes to follow, from low lifetime earnings to high incarceration rates to a high likelihood that your children will drop...
Warner touted his record of tax and education reform and his ability to draw jobs in the growing technology sector to rural parts of the state...
...schools in the United States have risen at an average annual rate of 5.8 from 2001 to 2006. Yet while Harvard College’s rate of increase has been smaller than at many other schools, it still continues to outstrip inflation—even in the higher education sector. The Higher Education Price Index—a gauge of inflation calculated by Commonfund, an investment firm in Wilton, Conn. that serves schools and other nonprofit organizations—has increased by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent over the past five years. The index measures movements...