The government is modernizing a number of apprenticeships. The biggest changes are taking place in the field of carpentry, carpentry technology and plastic moulding. Additional modules in metal technology and mechatronics are also planned, as Labor Minister Martin Kocher and State Secretary for Youth Claudia Plakolm (both ÖVP) announced Wednesday after the cabinet meeting.
Specifically, as Plakolm explained, carpentry and turning are brought together. A distinction is then made between general carpentry and a focus on turning. The apprenticeships for carpentry and model building will also be merged. In the future there will be three spearheads: production, planning and model and mold building. When it comes to molding plastic, the focus is on upcycling and recycling.
Metal technology: ‘Currently only every tenth student is a woman’
There are also changes in the largest technical apprenticeship, metal engineering. Safety technology is anchored here as a new focus. Plakolm called for more young women to turn to this apprenticeship, which is popular with men, as had already been done in Vorarlberg. Because currently only every tenth student in this sector is female. In mechatronics, working with robots must be encouraged more intensively.
Reform will take effect from August 1
The package is expected to start in August. In any case, Plakolm and Kocher spoke up for the teaching profession on Wednesday. The State Secretary emphasized that today’s students are tomorrow’s managers and employers. The economy needs the students, Kocher emphasized. It is also important to convince the parents. They often have outdated ideas about how the teaching professions are organized today. Those who do an internship stop doing the same three things throughout their lives, Plakolm helped.
Kocher sees it as a step in the right direction that the number of interns has recently increased by five percent in the first grade after the difficult Corona phase.
Source: Krone
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