Subject: Re: Apprenticeships
In the traditional apprenticeship the training is mostly on-the-job. The company gets useful work from the apprentice.

My nephew just started in the UK as an apprentice machinist. He gets paid, not a lot. Community college one day per week. Works at the machine shop 3 1/2 days per week. Been at it 4 months, is starting to set up the machining centers himself.