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Not really apprenticeship's tended to be only for skilled trades and technicians and where designed for the working class kids who left school at 14-16

Not sure degrading the status of the "professional" jobs we do is going to help even more so now that Walmart and co are taking the piss by abusing apprenticeship's to get cheap shelfstackers.

In some countries used to be all but impossible for those on the apprentice track to go to university at all (Germany and Austria for example)