Many students in Germany are part of what's called the dual system, which is that they spend half of their days at companies learning skills and the other half back in school. So you know, that is a very, very different model to the model that predominates in the UK and in the US where you bifurcate the population into people with degrees and without degrees. And again, to the winners, go the spoils. But remember, as you celebrate America's birthday, that we're still very much a work in progress.
Why has the American political system failed to arrest accelerating inequality, and is there anything we can do about it?
• Ben Ansell is professor of comparative democratic institutions at Oxford and author of “Why Politics Fail”
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