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High-school leathergoods course proves successful

04/01/2013
A technical high school in central France is making a success of training pupils of 16 and 17 in leathergoods manufacture.

In France, pupils who decide at the end of junior high school that they would rather go into the world of work at the end of school rather than go to university can opt to spend their final years of school in vocational training at special technical high schools. The school at Saint-Éloy-les-Mines in Auvergne began offering leathergoods as one of its vocational training options in 2009.

Since then, the school says it has had a strong success rate in helping its leathergoods students secure internships and jobs with luxury leathergoods firms.

Twenty-two pupils, mostly girls, are in the current leathergoods programmes. The course aims to equip them with technical knowledge about different types of leather as well as with hands-on cutting and sewing skills.



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