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Alice Guilhon co-authors article on apprenticeship and its importance
Alice Guilhon, dean and executive president of SKEMA Business School, has co-authored an article on apprenticeship with Vincenzo Vinzi, dean of ESSEC, published in Les Echos newspaper. For the two management school deans, apprenticeship is an essential vector of equal opportunities and remains a guarantee of maximised employability for students.
It is a fact that apprenticeship can be costly for the State to assume. In 2021, the latter spent 11.3 billion euros to train apprentices, as Alice Guilhon and Vincenzo Vinzi point out. However, apprenticeship is undoubtedly an engine of national growth, job creation and added value.
Reporting on the figures published by ASTERES, the authors point out that "apprenticeship in higher education generates 425,000 jobs, 41 billion euros of added value, and has brought in 11 billion euros for public finances in four years".
Several benefits
In their article, the two deans highlight the undeniable advantages of apprenticeship, such as the rapid professional integration of students and an effective route to the grandes écoles for those from modest families. Through apprenticeship, the two deans see a "lever for diversity and inclusion in excellent higher education".
Avenues of reflection to modulate the State's support
Alice Guilhon and Vincenzo Vinzi recommend several solutions such as "modulating the cost of the apprenticeship contract according to family income" or for companies to "take their share and assume the remaining costs, and not only for the best ranked business schools".
