I recommended looking at doing on-the-job and school training concurrently. In most jurisdictions today, people will do approximately 10 months of on-the-job training and then go to school for two months. I was listening to a professor from Switzerland who was talking about the Swiss system, where in many instances they do four days of on-the-job training and then a day at school training. This allows the on-the-job training and the school training to be connected to task and responsibility. It also ensures that both of those sets of training are taking place. It's not an option to just do all of your on-the-job training and then go back and do your school training. There would be significant implications for the community colleges and the apprenticeship systems if something like that was done. It would also affect employers, who would have to adjust their work schedules.
On November 22nd, 2012. See this statement in context.