Swiss Apprenticeships in Utah Madeline St. Amour, Inside Higher Ed A Swiss company is bringing its apprenticeship model to Utah to build a skilled workforce for its new facility in this country. The Swiss model has students split time between classes and paid, on-the-job training to get skills for a specific industry.
Stadler Rail, a Swiss manufacturing company that has contracts to build trains in California and Texas, decided to replicate the apprenticeship system after finding a dearth of employees with the correct skills for its U.S. facility in Salt Lake City. |