a government decision to triple the price of bread spock the on rest. at. it's heart and noisy the world of heavy industry is one of fire heat and steam. visitors to a high grade steel foundry are soon spellbound by what they see. this is layer steinback second visit she's having a look at the production side of things. the foreman tells her how iron ore and coke are used to create the molten steel which is then processed further. you know what if i was. the. leader is pursuing an apprenticeship at auto younker which is located south of often the company is one of germany's biggest producers of high grade steel products and melting furnace says. during her training here lee has

spent more time in an open plan office usually she works with computers and excell tables rather than furnaces and molten steel the one thousand year old is training to become an industrial management assistant she graduated from secondary school in twenty thirteen and is now in her second year at auto young cub she's already learned about bookkeeping stock and sales and is currently working and purchasing. the good thing about this training is that you become familiar with the broad spectrum of daisies and can decide later on what your focus will be. many other young people also pursue this kind of career plans almost twenty thousand of them start training as industrial management assistance each year it's long been one of the most popular apprenticeships in germany. but the foundations of germany's vocational education programs can be found in workshops. and on construction sites one of the latter is that the home of the

german national opera the shops open on the boulevard want to live in berlin. the building trades have influenced vocational training more than any other field. to master and apprentice constellation has characterized german trades since the twelfth century plasterers sebastian haas then his apprentice you know how to shoot a bit of and therefore part of a long tradition. today they're visiting the construction site at the theatre. these enormous pieces of plaster and stucco from the auditorium way up to three hundred kilograms in a few weeks they have to be put back up on the ceiling. apprentices start out learning simple tasks in a building next door many historical areas are being renovated old paints needs to be scraped off it's a tedious job attitude is important with cliff book i've always liked decorative

plastering it has a good substance for bringing a space to life no matter what the quality is like. what it looks nice it kind of freakish things up if you stand in the space and think wow now you can look at the ceiling and if there's a really nice painting on it that's even better. you hunter says he's always liked beautiful old things before he became a plasterers apprentice he studied history and archaeology and worked at his university. now he's thirty and has opened up a completely new chapter in his life he's training for a life transition. sebastian haas has been taking on apprentices for twenty years he's seen both the good and less gifted come and go. in our company there isn't much of a hierarchy but the apprentice is at the lowest level of what little are there is.

for the first lesson is to learn to listen. to stand back and not to think and then i can do it all already. don't get bullied or harassed but i definitely think that it's important for them to approach things with a certain amount of humility. training is an opportunity to learn and that takes modesty including when it comes to the paycheck the average monthly pay for an apprentice amounts to less than eight hundred euros and that's before taxes. the last suppresses just like all the others have to learn how to get by on very little. you'll hannis experiences what vocational education is in germany every friday. that's when the apprentice who's no longer so young climbs into a somewhat decrepit car and drives across birdman. he's heading for vocational

school it's the other part of the dual training system when you sit in a classroom and learn theory. but back to the root. noble store vocational school is located in brooklyn standout district about two thousand trainees attend classes here they're studying to be masons and surveyors cabinetmakers and mechanics this is where they learn the theoretical basics of their jobs. today in the plasterers class they're covering technology they learn about restoring plaster and make up lists of materials. beer get hired by as a trained construction engineer who's been teaching at the vocational school for twenty five years. i fear mom what we're doing here is

working on a kind of educational superstructure letting them know in general what's special about the company we then move on to handling materials for example because if i know why certain things are the way they are then i'll have more confidence when i'm working. here. the combination of theory and practice learning and application that's what makes germany's vocational training system a dual one it's also what sets it apart companies and government vocational schools often cooperate with one another over decades there are few other places in the world you can find that. i actually did leader a professor at munich's technical university trains up and coming vocational education teachers and pursues research in the field of vocational education youth unemployment in germany is relatively low and the leader says that's down to the

dual system when trainees get their diplomas they're good to go for the job market says in the log. if they're all able to do their jobs in a theoretically considered and practically competent way. they're also flexible as a result and can change firms. within the german system once they're qualified they're in demand as a rule even outside of the company where they're trained. so is germany's vocational training flawless perfect wherever you look. for from it companies in the region in rural upper but there are a prime example of what's been going wrong. experts call what the vision of fighting a company is struggling with fit issues. the family business for two generations it's now run by hindsight know his firm has

taken on apprentices for more than three decades precision engineers and cutting machine operators in particular train here but for a few years now they've been unable to find anyone for the traineeships applicants have grown spears and they come with worse qualifications emotion and the machines are becoming more and more complex and that requires the specialists who operate there to be trained to a certain level of confidence. but we're seeing a deficit in general education and if you ask them posed the german chancellor then sometimes they're surprised it's a woman if you don't even want to start training i'm sorry i don't even know that it's a bit of in this your field. companies would rather apprentice busy. go unfilled then try to educate unqualified trainees that's why vite know his company like so many others in germany is contributing to a staggering statistic and twenty thirteen eighty thousand trainee positions remained unfilled firms only want the most talented and the best and they screen

rigorously. the trainees that make it into vital as workshops know that two. good motivated apprentices are in high demand as the population ages the number of teens in germany finishing secondary schools is falling plus many more young people prefer going to university over working at a company like mike nars. there's unquestionably a great deal that's working well in germany's dual system in spite of the current problems people from abroad have noticed that giving young people a future perspective early on with a model that includes theory and practice seems to work. more and more countries are expressing an interest in the german system but introducing it is easier said than done. i think this misses the first similar companies have to sit down together and set uniform training standards that means what do they want what do

they all have in common then they've got to give people time off to go to class and they have to pay for the program. seamlessness cannot see it just like germany's dual vocational training system is supported by a high level of acceptance and it's rooted within the society companies here are willing and eager to take part in training people that's what it takes time for that to develop. vocational training in germany is a model for the rest of the world many apprentices among them appreciate that she's satisfied with the program as i've already learned so much you learn a great deal even for yourself and become more independent you need to take on responsibility and that's why there's no way i'll regret. it was a good decision no doubt about it but it's fun and it has me looking forward to something new that motivates me a lot. it makes getting up early not so bad when i come home early in evening and

say today i really accomplished something and i've got some time off if i could it's great. and there's plenty of work still left to do for yohannes and his boss someday sebastian vost wants to open up a museum on the upper floor of his workshop the exhibits will be old plaster trim from berlin buildings the idea is to have yohannes work on it if things go according to plan the master wants to employ his apprentice once he's finished his training. her first day at school in the jungle. first. band doris grandma mentor arrives. join during a take on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary. to

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