What American universities can learn from Germany (2016)
This article is total bullshit and so is the &quot;dual education&quot; model.<p>&quot;Duale Ausbildung&quot; has nothing to do with universities, if you go that route you spend up to <i>four years</i> working at (on average) well below 1000€ while attending a government school that teaches at a rather low level. The government has to subsidize the income of those people <i>and</i> the employer, in some cases.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azubiyo.de&#x2F;gehalt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azubiyo.de&#x2F;gehalt&#x2F;</a><p>Worse, if you don&#x27;t buy into the &quot;dual education&quot; thing, you can&#x27;t get most of these jobs. We&#x27;re not talking about great jobs either, it&#x27;s <i>most</i> jobs that don&#x27;t require university education. A lot of that is stuff you could be trained for on-the-job in six months or less.<p>Don&#x27;t trust German unemployment statistics, it&#x27;s basically the government paying at every end to have people employed at all costs and often at very low pay.<p>Also, don&#x27;t buy into the German educational model, it&#x27;s one of the most discriminatory systems in the world, even though it is &quot;free&quot; on paper, it&#x27;s all about weeding out people at a young age so they&#x27;re not allowed to attend the &quot;free&quot; university. We have parents suing the teachers of ten-year-olds for the grades they give, because of the impact it can have on their careers.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.focus.de&#x2F;familie&#x2F;rechte&#x2F;das-kind-aufs-gymnasium-klagen-eltern-zerren-vermehrt-lehrer-vor-gericht_id_3104903.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.focus.de&#x2F;familie&#x2F;rechte&#x2F;das-kind-aufs-gymnasium-k...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opensocietyfoundations.org&#x2F;voices&#x2F;hard-look-discrimination-education-germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opensocietyfoundations.org&#x2F;voices&#x2F;hard-look-disc...</a>