S'pore can learn from Germany in skills training, says PM Lee

Berlin

DESCRIBING Germany's brand of vocational training as a "very unique" model in the world, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he believed Singapore could learn a thing or two from the Germans in the area of boosting the skills of the workforce.

The culture in Germany is one where workers, after completing an apprenticeship with a firm, expect to stay with that particular company for a long time; they do "not go and wander off straightaway because somebody else is paying them another five or 10 per cent more", he said in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, a major daily newspaper in Munich.