Internationally, vocational education and training (VET) faces some major challenges, one of
them certainly constituting the number of premature terminations of contract. A large part of …

Purpose Apprenticeship programmes are designed to provide young trainees with essential
broad-based skills. Through apprenticeships, different sectors that are underpopulated can …

Fresh approaches to trades training are essential for decolonizing educational access and
success for Indigenous people. Holistic approaches to supporting student success are …

The transition to work through apprenticeship is one taken by many young people. A sense
of belonging to a workplace is posited to be an important precursor for initial and on-going …

This article offers a critical assessment of empirical knowledge regarding labour market
training and skills development in an era of technological disruption. Although exactly which …

The author estimates the impacts of the local rate of unemployment and the Great Recession
on the quit and graduation rates of the US construction trade apprentices over the 2001 …

Motivated students have been shown to persist longer in post-secondary education. As a
multidimensional psychological construct, motivation is shaped by within-and between …

After more than 50 years of research on drop-out from Vocational Education and Training
(VET), databases provide vast amounts of drop-out studies from around the globe that entail …

Apprenticeships provide young people with training and improve the supply of workers in
the construction sector. In Nigeria, there is a large influx of craftspeople from neighbouring …

This paper highlights troubling patterns within the Australian School-based Apprenticeships
and Traineeships (SBATs) by analysing statistical data of 21,000 of 15–19 year old …