Professionalizing apprenticeship contracts have opened doors to the workplace for millions of young people. Are they still relevant? Seven reasons to say yes
Education
Five high schools have made it through Ashoka’s international selection process and now form part of the global network of changemaker schools
Three hundred professional training centres are experimenting with the dual system for the first time in Italy. The outcome was positive, and so now its time to stabilise the situation.
A training programme for workers of all ages and positions would improve productivity and qualifications of staff, also facilitating their redeployment.
Knowledge exchange between juniors and seniors has become necessary so as not to lag behind. Work organisation has also to be updated.
In Italy, the mismatch between school and the productive world is still quite significant. But the wind is changing: during the 2015/16 school year, 45.8% of students in the third, fourth, and fifth year of secondary school experienced work/school alternation, as against 18.5% the year before
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.