Sentence examples for system of apprenticeships from inspiring English sources

Germany has a long-standing system of apprenticeships and vocational training.

And the German system of apprenticeships and vocational training, divided into some 350 trades, has helped keep youth unemployment lower than elsewhere in Europe (see article).The sincerest form of flatterySo what should Europe's weaker countries be trying to copy?

To placate those opposed to the abolition, the government used £20m of taxpayers' money to compensate 47,000 slave owners for the loss of their "property" and introduced a system of apprenticeships that saw supposedly free slaves doing four to six years' unpaid labour for their former masters.

I concur; it's exactly what I told my French friends several years ago: that the quality of writing by young Americans is upheld by the equivalent of a system of apprenticeships, in which professional writers, employed as teachers, help to foster the talents of newcomers.

Later one can identify a distinction between practical and professional knowledge on the one hand -- which was learned through the system of apprenticeships and was legitimized by the medieval guilds -- and academic knowledge that was legitimized by the universities on the other.

This was an old-fashioned system of apprenticeship, informal in its protocols but ironclad in its observances.

And it's not just the German system of apprenticeship schemes that could do with being copied.

Mr. Maazel, 70, who is said to be a prime candidate for the New York Philharmonic post, said that the new foundation aimed to create a formal alternative to a chaotic "hit-and-miss" system of apprenticeship.

But at the same time, I wasn't quite convinced that the system of apprenticeship and gradual promotion that I'd left behind when I left book publishing was as flawed as establishment-attacking Gawker made it out to be.

It was here that Daniel Jeanrichard (1665-1741), the region's first watchmaker, developed a system of apprenticeship and cultivated watchmaking as a local cottage industry.

A system of apprenticeship called Duale Ausbildung ("dual education") allows students in vocational training to learn in a company as well as in a state-run vocational school.