For their training, young people in Saxony sometimes have to travel long distances. In the result of a survey published on Thursday by the Chambers of Industry and Commerce and the Chambers of Crafts, more than a quarter of all apprentices are more than one and a half hours to the vocational school on the road. For a third, it is more than 50 kilometers distance, they need an accommodation. But here, too, the chambers see "a need to catch up," according to the report. A well-timed connection to the public local traffic would be indeed an alternative, but that lacked straight in rural regions.
The basic conditions are important with potential apprentices for the decision. The chambers demand therefore a "speedy inventory of the current situation" and training-friendly conditions. This must be a priority in view of increasing shortages of skilled workers, they say. "Quality of apprenticeship, shortage of teachers, cancelled classes, long routes to school, lack of or poor accommodation, rising training costs are issues that need to be addressed urgently and above all require timely, practical and unbureaucratic solutions."
