Bad idea.
I know some excellent tradesmen who are absolutely horrible teachers/mentors. I would hate for it to be mandated they have to take on apprentices.
Lot's of industries make a **** load of money, maybe said businesses can pay to send people off to university by mandate as part of their duty to society.
Fair point. Someone mentioned technical trade colleges earlier, which I remember being a thing when I was growing up and I was going to go to one for my high school education when I was down in Victoria. I ended up coming here to Queensland so I didn’t end up there.
We do need to do something though as we have a shortage of tradies and constantly importing people from overseas to fill all the skilled jobs will disengage younger Australians who are already here from decent job opportunities.
Many years ago in my younger days when I was unemployed and searching for jobs nearly every job demanded prior experience in that job, which I always found frustrating. How are you ever supposed to get a job if every job demands prior experience in that field?
Im sure it’s still the same now. Pretty much no employer wants to train people, they just want walk up starts, which dissolutions young people looking for an opportunity.
Would you also accept as per the mandate, like apprentices in the the armed forces, that they need to stay on for a period of time equal to their apprenticeship after they are qualified? It's always frustrating investing time and money into apprentices who then bail the second they are qualified.
Yes I would agree with that in principle. If the time and effort has been spent to train you up then you should at least stay on for a sufficient time to pay that back. Although as I mentioned earlier to Shane there is some moral hazard in that.
