Unemployment rate EU minimum how does Austria do vocational training?

In the shadow of the European debt crisis and the recession, the EU Member States ' unemployment rate has risen rapidly, and Spain has even approached the 30% Red line. By the end of May, however, the Austrian unemployment rate was only 4.9%, the lowest in the EU, which had much to do with their vocational education system. Austrian traditional vocational training began in the late 17th century, after more than 300 years of development, and gradually formed today's "dual system" mode, namely full-time vocational school model and apprenticeship mode of vocational education. Data show that, as of 2007, Austria's vocational preparatory school 330, the vocational and technical schools in 770, part of the Time Apprenticeship Training School 165, these schools for only 8 million of the population of Austria, the "density" is already big enough. Not only the "density" is large, the direction is also very subdivided. Each industry has its corresponding vocational colleges and universities, such as machinery, service industry, tourism, business management, and even the vocational and technical college specialized in the training of mint talent. The first mode, that is, full-time vocational school model has a certain threshold, requiring students to achieve a certain grade, model and domestic vocational colleges similar, but pay more attention to skills training and practical experience-students in the enterprise learning time accounted for the whole study time of more than 80%. In addition all training costs of the apprentices at the school are undertaken by the federal government, in the study costs of the enterprise are undertaken by the enterprise. More characteristic is the apprenticeship system, that is, the enterprise cultivates The Apprentice. This threshold is lower than vocational schools, generally only to complete compulsory education, enterprises will conduct interviews to decide whether to hire as apprentices. The Apprentice and the enterprise sign the labor contract, obtains the salary. Austrian law stipulates that enterprises must send apprentices for a period of time to the relevant vocational school training, the costs are shared by the State and enterprises, the total training time of 35 weeks, generally completed in 3-4 years. That is, in the school time, the first three years 10 weeks a year, the fourth year 5 weeks, the rest of the time in the enterprise work. When the Apprentice gets the "diploma" and the "grade card", he becomes a regular worker and his salary increases. In the process, the Austrian Government, in addition to providing part of the funding, will assess and guide enterprises through their apprenticeship offices and labour representatives to test their ability to train apprentices. The apprenticeship was extremely popular in Austria, where 40% per cent of young people aged 15 to 19 were apprentices, although not regular workers, who were also protected by labour laws.