...Reece Sohdi Purpose This conceptual paper critically explores the role of apprenticeships in the UK as both potential social levellers and mechanisms of social reproduction. Drawing on theories of capital, social justice, and intersectionality, it investigates whether vocational pathways can...

... The results show that differences in observed characteristics cannot explain differences in drop-out rates between child welfare clients and the majority peers. It is argued that this drop-out rate is likely a result of employers favoring apprenticeship applicants who are similar to them or that child welfare...

...Erica Smith; Linda Simon; Kira Clarke Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the issues affecting successful employment outcomes for young women in male-dominated careers, focusing on those generally accessed via a traditional Australian apprenticeship model. Current patterns...

...Erica Smith; Thomas Deissinger; Philipp Gonon Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare stakeholders’ roles in Germany and Switzerland when it comes to promoting innovation in the dual apprenticeship model. In both countries, the relevant stakeholders who represent the various occupations...

... on the educational success of migrant apprentices. In academic research, the impact of family on adolescents’ professional development is undisputed (Marjoribanks, 1979 ; Kalil and DeLeire, 2004), in particular as far as its supportive role in the adolescents’ search for an apprenticeship position...

...Jeffrey G. Woods Purpose The purpose of this research is to provide an in‐depth analysis of the labor market for apprentice training in the US construction industry. Also, the paper analyzes the learning process of apprentices and discusses the role of apprenticeships as a pathway to higher...

... on what the tutors could actually achieve within tight funding limits meant that most students, while on track to successfully complete their apprenticeship, still remained of low print literacy. Originality/value The study reveals how tutors’ instrumental approach ran counter to their traditional...

... and the norms of being print literate which adult literacy tutors worked to draw apprentices into. Interviewees perceived a divide between practice and theory, or “doing the job” and “doing bookwork”, so that MAs were faced with trying to be two different kinds of people to succeed in their apprenticeship...

... Human resource development Skills training Apprenticeships Hospitality services Retailing Australia Service industries predominate in western economies and yet there remains a perception that they and the jobs that they create are somehow inferior to jobs that produce goods rather than...

... construction, training methods must be improved. It looks at the example of an adult apprenticeship scheme in Australia from the perspectives of the apprentice, the training provider and the employer. Findings The paper suggests that trained adult apprentices with previous experience can be more productive...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Apprenticeships Junior managers Post experience learning Mentoring Skills shortages The Supervisory Management Development Programme (SMDP) consists of a number of routes developed to reflect the unique needs of different groups of talented...

...: “providing business services”; “providing goods and services”; and “providing health, social and protective services” (DFES, 2001). In comparison, of over 13,000 young people registered for a foundation level Apprenticeship in construction in 2003, only 100 of these were female (Miller et al., 2004...

... the conventional stagiare. But this does not always appear to have been the case. Often, managers of the company were poorly informed about the apprenticeship programme. For many managers the apprentis were seen only as another pair of hands, or as a stagiare. The apprenti...

... to remain in their apprenticeship. Design/methodology/approach Specifically, five individual domains were investigated: motivation style (intrinsic and extrinsic motivation); coping style (emotion‐focused and problem‐focused); apprentice experiences (satisfaction, work conditions, expectations, formal...

... Apprenticeships Skills Women Fifty years ago when Education + Training began under its first title, I was growing up on a council housing estate in the English Midlands. One of my most enduring memories is of the one woman in the street who actually had a job – as a bus conductor. I can still...

... by the journal on its fiftieth anniversary. Its originality stems from the subject matter and the construction industry perspective. Eric Sandelands can be contacted at: esandelands@yourclearadvantage.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Training Apprenticeships Skills shortages...

...T.H. Hawkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the different types and features of apprenticeships available in the 1950s. Design/methodology/approach The term “apprenticeship” has lost the weight it had when it was originally conceived in the sixteenth century, and has now...

...Erica Smith; Phillip Grollman; Philipp Grollmann; Felix Rauner Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that the quality of learning in German apprenticeships can be increased without raising costs under certain conditions. It starts with a contextual description of apprenticeship in the dual...

...Erica Smith; Phillip Grollman; Alison Fuller; Lorna Unwin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: first, outline the features of the contemporary apprenticeship system, and its performance in terms of the numbers starting and completing programmes; and second, to report the findings of empirical...

...Erica Smith; Phillip Grollman; Jeroen Onstenk; Franck Blokhuis Purpose The purpose of the paper is to show that The Netherlands offers an interesting case of apprenticeship as part of an elaborated system of vocational education, combining school and workplace learning. For reaching objectives...