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- From: buehlman@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch (Buehlmann Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Bankruptcy by 1995..
- Message-ID: <buehlman.728115045@werkz02>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:10:45 GMT
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- goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring) writes:
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- > Ill-educated??? Just yesterday I saw some figures indicating
- > that ~22% of the US labor force had college degrees vs. 10-13%
- > that of our major economic competitors' (source: OECD).
-
- Go on comparing banana with oranges! I do not want to take any position
- in the question of bad education but you gotta realize that in the US
- you have a different education system as for example Europe has. The lack
- of an appropriate High-School Apprenticeship combination drives people
- into college for there is no other way to obtain professional qualifications.
- In Europe (particularly Switzerland, Germany, Austria) you have the apprentice-
- ship system which guarantees people passing a recognized level of skills
- (professional) and results in fewer people going to college, which is
- actually THE university track here.
-
- Thomas Buehlmann
-