German officials want kids to stop going to college and take on trades instead
by editors@theworld.org (Valerie Hamilton) from The World: Latest Stories on (#79DMF)
For the better part of a century, Germany's two-track education system offered prestigious college degrees for the few and high-quality vocational qualifications for the many. But that's changed over the past decade or so, and many more students have gotten a shot at higher education. But, as Valerie Hamilton reports from Weisbach, Germany, that's left the country with a massive shortage of apprentices who might do anything from cutting hair to building weapons.