Youth training: the West German example

Abstract

In the debate about the new Youth Training Scheme, there has been a lot of talk about the example of the much admired West German dual system of vocational training. It is true that the German system provides a training place for a large proportion of school‐leavers; 86 per cent of minimum‐age school‐leavers in 1977 had begun an apprenticeship by 1980. Yet it too has its problems; and for policy‐makers involved in the implementation of YTS there are lessons to be learned from both the successes and the failures of the German system.

Citation

Whitehouse, S. (1983), "Youth training: the West German example", Education + Training, Vol. 25 No. 8, pp. 255-256. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002105