German-speaking Switzerland has more faith in host companies than French-speaking Switzerland
Why do fewer host companies in French-speaking Switzerland participate in VET programmes than in the German-speaking part of the country? A SFUVET research project by Manuel Aepli, Andreas Kuhn and Jürg Schweri addresses this issue. It is interesting that there are still differences between the language regions in terms of the commitment of host companies to the training of apprentices, even with the same requirements and under the same framework conditions. The researchers have now found a possible explanation in the different attitudes and social norms between the French-speaking and German-speaking parts of Switzerland.
Voting outcomes show that people in the French-speaking region of Switzerland tend to regard the provision of services such as education, health insurance, maternity insurance and postal services to be a task of the state, whereas people in German-speaking region of Switzerland emphasise the commitment of private actors in the provision of these services. These different attitudes may explain why (private) commitment to workplace training in Switzerland differs between linguistic regions.