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A training that prepares us for life and work!

The highest objective of school education should be to prepare young people for life and work. School prepares neither for work nor for life, it is much too theoretical. Many more practical contents should be transmitted. The social competences is not being practised enough - young people are not being prepared for life. Many young people only go to school because they have to.

• A theoretical training that is directly put into practice and that is linked to a future job.

• A training that helps to choose the right job.

• We want to learn to become responsible and to assume responsibilities. Social competences need to be practised.

  • To be able to communicate and to work in a team.

  • To know how to react in different situations - to face difficult situations, to criticise and to be criticised.

  • To know how to make friends - to be integrated in society.

• Workers' rights and what to do after school in order to get a job should be taught already at school.

• A training that makes the start in a job as easy as possible.

• Also theoretically trained people (in university) need practical knowledge. 

Apprentices are only cheap labour, they have to carry out tasks that have nothing to do with their training (e.g.: bring coffee to the boss, clean, tidy up, etc.). In some countries young people prefer to follow some vocational training than to study at university. 

• Vocational training must be more practical, there must be a stronger relation between the subject and the work for which the training is done.

• The most important is to have a good training - this facilitates a lot the search for a future job.

• It is also important for the motivation to be paid, to get a salary.

• The tasks in the training should be the same as in the work for which it prepares.

• We need to have good training, that is as close as possible to the reality at work places, in factories.

• This should be a step-by-step process which should be followed-up by a responsible person (tutor) - it's important to learn progressively.

• Also at university the training should be more practical.
  

For apprentices things are sometimes difficult, because they are "only" apprentices.

• The majority of the apprentices are considered as second class workers - they are inferior, they are only good for physical work and not for intellectual work - the educational system gives this image.

• The follow up of apprentices must be improved in order to guarantee that apprentices carry out only tasks for which they are being trained - this is not always the case.

• The other workers must have time to give practical training to the apprentices.

• Employers mustn't make the training a competition with normal workplaces.
  

Most of the time experiences (especially practical experiences), qualification and knowledge are expected. In order to find a job it is very important to be flexible. There is a big competition for only a few job vacancies.

The biggest difficulties while looking for a job are the lack of experiences and not enough qualification.

• In some sectors, with a lot of job vacancies, young people find a job within four weeks.

• You have to have luck or relatives to find a good job - most of the jobs are not declared, not well paid and do not correspond to the previous training.

• For a good job, the process takes longer.

Many students have to work in order to be able to study. In most of the cases these are jobs without any social security at all.

• Young Workers (especially those living in another city) need to work to buy food, to pay for housing, books, materials, trips back home to their parents, etc. - sometimes people stop studying because there is not enough money.

• Scholarships are given to those with good results - others need to work - studies must be free of charge for everyone.
  

We demand:

• School must prepare for life and work.

• A training that prepares for a future job for every young worker.

• A job that corresponds to our training for every young worker.

• A place to be trained for each young worker. Those who finish school need a place to be trained for their future jobs.

• Companies must provide enough places where Young Workers can be trained (We are not talking about further training at work - it is about apprentices).