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Swiss apprenticeships integrate AI into training programmes from this academic year

The MEM technical sectors have used the start of the academic year to integrate artificial intelligence into initial training programmes in Switzerland. Industry professionals believe that AI primarily enhances trainers’ specialised skills.

Swiss apprenticeships integrate AI into training programmes from this academic year

Swiss vocational education is adapting to the arrival of generative AI.

This academic year, the MEM technical sectors, which cover eight occupations ranging from mechanics to IT, used the revision of initial training programmes to integrate AI. Other tertiary sectors, including sales and commercial services, had already done so in recent years.

A unanimous conclusion is emerging: AI has a crucial and widely recognised virtue – it enhances specialised skills.