Education Where Students Earn While They Learn

Non-traditional apprenticeships now cover a much wider array of career pathways than the traditional blue-collar trades. In Switzerland, for example, 80% of Grade 10-12 students are in one of nearly 300 paid apprenticeship pathways that lead to full-time paid employment when they graduate high school.

What’s promising about apprenticeship is that participants don’t have to go into debt while getting trained for the workforce. Unlike college, apprentices earn while they learn. What’s more, 87 percent of participants finish their programs having already secured a job. Apprenticeships are, in turn, being touted as a simple fix to the country’s $1.3 trillion student-debt crisis and the high percentage of unemployed college graduates.

View this November 21, 2017, article in The Atlantic: The Push For Educati: Programs that Pay People As They Learn