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Revitalizing apprenticeships: a challenge for Switzerland
What if apprenticeships became a choice for the future again?
In Switzerland, the dual education system is a real national asset. However, it is losing ground to academic courses that are perceived – sometimes wrongly – as more rewarding or promising.
There are many reasons for this, including a lack of institutional recognition, recruitment bias, social pressure, and cultural influences. But these reasons should not obscure the reality that apprenticeships are a path to excellence that is enriching, progressive, and perfectly suited to the job market. I know this from experience. Having completed an apprenticeship and supplemented it with continuing education, I have been able to build a career that is exciting, fulfilling, and well-paid.
It is time to give apprenticeships back the place they deserve in our society and to remind ourselves that success does not always come from a lecture hall.
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Acting specifically, thinking globally …
The phrase “Think globally, act locally” makes sense in many circumstances…
Except for very specific products (the technology and junk food sectors spring to mind), believing that you can apply the same formulas throughout the world, or even in one part of the world without changing a comma, is a tall order, not to say irresponsible entrepreneurship.
It is often necessary to apply “local” versions to match economic realities and consumer needs as closely as possible. Of course, e-commerce is disrupting certain practices by reducing the world to the level of a “global village”, but it is also introducing a form of impoverishment through “one-track thinking”.
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FM and workspaces: ‘Welcome’ to the metaverse
The time when a piece of fruit was still just a piece of fruit and a company was still a real company seems to be slipping away: thanks to - or because of - the metaverse, all this will soon be a thing of the past: we will all be living in a parallel world.
What luck some would say, as their real worlds are so sad, poor, or desolate, but many of us will still prefer the real world, despite all the constraints and challenges, because it is so captivating and beautiful!
The idea here is not to confront the two worlds: it is simply to assess the advantages and constraints of a more “virtual” approach. This “new world” will perhaps allow us to study certain paths, certain behaviours, certain solutions without having to “play them for real” with all the consequences that this may have.