Between 8,000 and 10,000 extra training places and 30% of youths choosing vocational educational training by 2025 are the goals declared in a new tripartite agreement on youths and occupational training that was signed on 19 August 2016 between the government and both the employers’ and unions’ organizations. In Denmark the economy is doing better and unemployment is falling and so it is now a question of pre-empting future problems in hiring skilled labor. The agreement is thus focused on simplifying the training system for the unemployed and looks to make occupational training more attractive for both youths and business.
The need to attract the young… and to meet expectations. For several years now Denmark’s youths have been turning their backs on vocational educational training. Apprenticeships, a Nordic country trait, are suffering as the number of places offered by businesses is not enough to meet demand, which results in frustration as there is now an increasing number of youths with the potential to be attracted by apprenticeships in the light of changes that have raised the level of the secondary educatio
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