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Kathleen Vail – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Some students learn better if they can apply skills and knowledge to their lives. Youth apprenticeships are a way for students to work and gain skills in a chosen career field and earn money while still in high school. Youth apprenticeships are on a continuum of work-based learning that includes job shadowing and internships. Apprenticeships…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, High School Students, Job Shadowing, Experiential Learning
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Boutsiouki, Sofia; Vasileiadis, Nikolaos; Kouskouvelis, Ilias; Koniaris, Vasileios – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The smooth transition of young people to the labor market and their competency in successfully planning and developing their careers constitute key aims of all modern education systems. The implementation of work placements plays an important role in the realization of these aims by enhancing the communication between the education providers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Experiential Learning
Hamilton, Stephen F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Current career pathways initiatives recapitulate in many ways both the issues motivating the school-to-work movement of the 1980s and 1990s and its recommended solutions, notably more work-based learning, especially apprenticeship. But that movement's energy dissipated in the face of college for all. Nonetheless, some of its achievements and many…
Descriptors: Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Apprenticeships, Work Experience Programs
Keep, Ewart – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2020
The main focus of the paper is on youth unemployment and wider transitions into work, but it also has some thoughts on adult unemployment and re-training. This paper is founded upon a basic assumption -- namely that if the public money available across the United Kingdom to support measures around skills and unemployment is finite, then targeting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Unemployment, Adults
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Critten, Peter; Day, Carl; Helps, Ian; Squire, Philip – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2019
This paper builds on and follows up papers delivered at UALL conferences over the last decade: Critten P (2007); Critten P, Squire P & Leppenwell G (2010); Critten P (2012) and Critten P, Squire P and Locke G (2015). The theme common to them all is the unfolding story of a partnership between business (specifically Consalia Ltd) and Academia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Universities, Employer Attitudes
Steedle, Jeffrey T.; Hepburn, Andy – ACT, Inc., 2020
GPS Education Partners (GPSEd) is a community-based nonprofit organization and work-based learning intermediary offering a statewide manufacturing youth apprenticeship in Wisconsin. During their one to two years in the program, students meet high school graduation requirements, receive industry-specific and job-specific training, technical…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Success, Academic Achievement, Work Experience Programs
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Lu, Jing – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2020
In the business environment, the goal of data analytics can be characterized as improving decision making and its links to big data and other data-driven technologies. In UK higher education, degree apprenticeships are business-led and government-supported nationally recognized qualifications, where delivery is tailored to partner employer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Systems, Information Management, Data Use
Kuczera, Malgorzata; Bastianic, Tanja; Field, Simon – OECD Publishing, 2018
One of a series of studies on vocational education and training, this review assesses the apprenticeship system and vocational education and training in Israel and provides policy recommendations. Israel has experienced strong economic growth over the last decade, and labour shortages are observed in many sectors and occupations. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Educational Change
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Asghar, Waheed; Shah, Iftkhar Hussain; Akhtar, Naeem – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
The focus of this paper is "dual" apprenticeship training, which involves both on-the-job and institutional training. Apprentices receive training both within the companies to which they are apprenticed and within state-run, vocational institutes. The cost of training under this system is mainly borne by the employer, which has given…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Literature Reviews, Cost Effectiveness, On the Job Training
Vaughan, Karen – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2012
This paper is an initial exploration of the integration of work and learning and is intended to inform NZCER's Learning at Work research programme. It shows how the traditional separation between work and learning is being challenged and looks at what that means for education professionals, institutions and programmes. The paper considers the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Lifelong Learning
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van den Dungen, Marja – European Journal of Education, 2009
This article focuses on work-based learning in higher vocational education and training in relation to lifelong learning. It begins with an overview of the Dutch National Policy and the ambitions of a national Project Directorate Learning & Working. It then goes on to the concrete results of projects within higher education (HE) aimed at the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Lifelong Learning, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Taylor, Alison; McGray, Robert; Watt-Malcolm, Bonnie – Journal of Education and Work, 2007
This article argues that partnerships for vocational education and training (VET) reflect contradictions within capitalism and labour power, and therefore should be analysed within the broader context of industrial and workplace relations. Therefore, in contrast to a consensual model, we posit an understanding of social partnerships as sites of…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Apprenticeships, Work Experience, Vocational Education
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Haydn, Terry; Hake, Clare – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1995
Examines recent changes, and the motives behind them, in teacher education in England and Wales. Recent years have seen a move toward reducing the role of higher education and creating school-based systems of training reminiscent of apprenticeships. Motives behind this reform trend appear to be primarily political. (SLD)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Lerman, Robert I.; Pouncy, Hillard – Public Interest, 1990
Advocates the implementation of a formal youth apprenticeship program similar to that of the German system, which offers incentives to employers, students, and educators. Argues that such a system would increase the productivity and economic opportunities of non-college minority youth and reduce at-risk behaviors. (FMW)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship, High Risk Students
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1991
A study examined cooperative education programs identified as high quality to see if they could provide school-to-work linkages as do apprenticeship programs in countries such as Germany. Information for the study was obtained from a survey of state directors of cooperative education, who provided data on program participation and identified high…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
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