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Raemy, Patric; Widmer, Lona; Barabasch, Antje – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This study's goal was to explore how new learning cultures might capture the many new needs of the retail industry sector and how apprentices can be trained for future work. Due to the inductive nature of this study, we found a rather implicit but important role of vocational education and training in retail that promotes the social advancement of…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Retailing, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education
Jenny Marcionetti; Camilla Zambelli; Jérôme Rossier – Journal of Career Development, 2025
This study aimed to analyze how career adaptability and job control can influence apprentices' perceptions of their work as being decent and stressful. The participants included 530 Swiss apprentices enrolled in a three-year vocational education training (VET) program. Structural equation modeling showed a positive association between career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Work Experience Programs
Camilla Zambelli; Jenny Marcionetti; Jérôme Rossier – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Based on the social cognitive model and on the psychology of working theory, this research aims to study the job and life satisfaction of apprentices, considering proactive personality, person-supervisor and person-group fit, occupational self-efficacy, and decent work as antecedents. The participants were 530 Swiss apprentices enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Job Satisfaction
Lüthi, Fabienne; Stalder, Barbara E.; Elfering, Achim – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Providing learners with quality resources at work and school is a key element of apprenticeships and is essential for developing vocational competencies and successful vocational careers. Drawing on previous research on situational and personal resources, we first explored work-related and school-related resource profiles of apprentices'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Schweri, Jürg; Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Standardized curricula define the set of skills that must be trained within a training occupation and thus are a key regulatory element of apprenticeship systems. Although clear economic rationales support the usage of such curricula, they necessarily impose costs, especially on firms that train apprentices, but do not use the full set of skills…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Core Curriculum, Costs, Cost Effectiveness
Schmid, Evi; Scharnhorst, Ursula; Kammermann, Marlise – Vocations and Learning, 2021
Over the last 15 years, different countries have developed low-level vocational education and training (VET) programmes for young people who struggle to enter or complete education at upper secondary level. Switzerland introduced nationally standardised two-year initial VET programmes in 2005, Norway in 2016. Data of interviews with curriculum…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Program Development
Strebel, Alexandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Collective skill formation systems thrive if employers' skill needs are reflected in apprenticeship training programmes and firms offer apprenticeship positions. Occupation-level adaptation processes underpin these systems, which offer upper-secondary level vocational education leading to hundreds of occupations. Yet, it is considered challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Bonoli, Lorenzo; Vorpe, Jackie – Education Sciences, 2022
Despite the fact that the Swiss VET system has been regulated by federal laws since 1930, the 26 cantons that make up the Swiss Confederation enjoy a certain room for maneuver when implementing federal provisions at the regional level. This is reflected in sometimes significant differences between the cantons, particularly with regard to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Educational Policy
Rohr-Mentele, Silja; Forster-Heinzer, Sarah – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Competence development and measurement are of great interest to vocational education and training (VET). Although there are many instruments available for measuring competence in diverse settings, in many cases, the completed steps of validation are neither documented nor made transparent in a comprehensible manner. Understanding what an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Test Validity, Competence
Keller, Anna; Barabasch, Antje – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
In vocational education and training, coaching can be used to support apprentices' ability to manage their own (further) competence development 'on the job'. This is largely requested among employees at workplaces in internationally competitive sectors of the economy which require of their workforce a great deal of flexibility and learning…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Michelsen, Svein; Høst, Håkon; Leemann, Regula Julia; Imdorf, Christian – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
In recent years Norway and Switzerland have introduced local training agencies (TAs), local intermediary organisations consisting of firms involved in apprentice training. In both countries, the starting point for the formation of the TA was roughly similar: enabling more firms to participate in apprentice training. Despite similar tasks, TAs have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Job Training, Cooperative Programs
Deissinger, Thomas; Gonon, Philipp – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Referring to historical debates and theories on vocational education and training (VET) since the 19th century and developments up to the present day, this paper considers the cultural conditions that were relevant for the emergence and legitimisation of vocational education and training and, in particular, the dual principle of apprenticeships in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Cultural Influences
Barabasch, Antje; Keller, Anna – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
The learning of apprentices is always embedded within the overall learning culture of an enterprise. The structures for learning, as well as the attitudes, values and beliefs of the members of the organisation in respect to training, influence the ways in which apprentices are socialised and prepared for the labour market. This qualitative case…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications
Di Maio, Gina; Graf, Lukas; Wilson, Anna – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Liberalization pressures challenge countries to adapt their training systems. This is particularly relevant for coordinated market economies with firm-driven but collectively governed apprenticeship systems. Recent literature has identified different liberalization trajectories for these countries. For instance, segmentalism describes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change, Apprenticeships
Rupietta, Christian; Meuer, Johannes; Backes-Gellner, Uschi – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
This paper contributes to the literature on non-monetary benefits of Vocational Education and Training (VET) by investigating its influence on a firm's innovation process. While an increasing number of studies finds positive effects of VET on innovation in firms, the role that apprentices play in this mechanism has largely been unexplored. To…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Benefits, Apprenticeships, Innovation