Schwerin (dpa / mv) – More and more high school graduates in MV are doing vocational training. In 2011, almost every fifth apprentice (19.5 percent) had a university or technical college entrance qualification, ten years later it was almost every fourth (23.5 percent). The State Statistical Office recorded the highest proportion of high school graduates among trainees in 2020 at 24.1 percent.
The employers’ association VUMV would like parents to recognize the value of dual training earlier and recommend an apprenticeship to their children. “Job and income prospects are in no way inferior to those of academic professions, provided you make the right career choice,” said VUMV Managing Director Jens Matschenz of the German Press Agency.
The trend towards grammar school education is primarily due to the influence of parents – the economy must remain realistic in this regard. “Parents’ experiences of the training market, which they pass on to their children, were shaped by the shortage of training places at the time and strong competition for applicants.” Today, however, this has completely turned around.
The secondary school leaving certificate, which is acquired after the tenth grade, is largely unchanged in almost half of all trainees in MV. The proportion of trainees with vocational qualifications – the lowest school-leaving certificate with which vocational training can be taken up seamlessly – fell within a decade from 26.9 to 21.5 percent.
And there is another difference between trainees in 2011 and 2021 in the north-east: 2.6 percent recently had a foreign school-leaving certificate. Ten years ago it was zero. Due to the lack of domestic applicants, the economy is increasingly recruiting trainees abroad.