Tom was surprised to learn that Mary was already in the third year of her plumbing apprenticeship.

He began an apprenticeship at the photography studio of W.R. Bowles in Hopkinsville and eventually became quite talented in his trade.

Moreover, in the past, someone who left school without the right qualifications could still succeed, through an apprenticeship or by working his way up from the shop floor.

Arwa al Hujaili has become Saudi Arabia's first female legal trainee or three years of apprenticeship ahead before she earns her full legal licensure to become a lawyer.

In medical schools, however, the curriculum in both the basic science and clinical apprenticeship years places the greatest emphasis on understanding the biology of disease processes and high technology treatments.

And finally, I had received a document that I had accomplished my apprenticeship successfully, that I had behaved morally, and this document was given to me by the Guild of Roof Coverers, Rail Diggers, Oven Setters, Chimney Sweeps and Potters.

The creation of more graduate jobs only proves that as credentials become more common, they become more important. Moreover, in the past, someone who left school without the right qualifications could still succeed, through an apprenticeship or by working his way up from the shop floor.

Finally, as the Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has shown, growth is now a necessary but insufficient condition for job creation. Today s epidemic of youth unemployment, in particular, requires new approaches a development bank, for example, to help employ the bulging youth population in the Middle East and North Africa, and training and apprenticeship programs elsewhere.