This article seeks to add to current policy and debate on apprenticeships and youth transitions more widely by reflecting back upon the historical experience of the apprenticeship model. The research comprises in-depth interviews with 30 people who undertook apprenticeships in a range of trades in Great Britain in the period 1944-1982. The…

The booklet presents national apprenticeship standards for plumbing and steamfitting--pipefitting developed by the National Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training Committee and the National Joint Steamfitter-Pipefitter Apprenticeship Committee, together with the Department of Labor. The standards cover: a definition of a local joint…

Provides sources of information about apprenticeships, including the addresses of the state employment services. (BH)

Faith and Farm, a Christian church organization, sponsors apprenticeships to encourage young men to learn innovative agricultural skills from older successful farmers. A high proportion of the apprentices go on to be successful farmers themselves. (MF)

Describes the cooperative efforts of the Nova Scotia Department of Education, New Brunswick Community College and the Departments of Labour and Manpower of the two provinces to develop a curriculum for apprenticeship training programs. (JOW)

Drawbacks of the German dual system include limits on competition, delay of adult status in the labor market, no guarantee of employment, and inflexible regulations. An underlying principle of corporatism and unique aspects of the German economy mean it may not be an appropriate model for the British training system. (SK)

Describes the Maryland tech prep consortium, one of the federal government's model programs. It seeks to give students on-the-job work experience that qualifies them for advanced placement at a community college and journeyperson certification. (JOW)

Discusses the definition of apprenticeship and explains the purposes it serves. Examines criticisms of apprenticeship and looks at research on apprenticeship in the building trades to illustrate the purposes and test the criticisms. (JOW)

Examines whether Britain's Training and Enterprise Councils are the best way to forge consensus on Modern Apprenticeship. Concludes with the need for a greater role for industry-based organizations and dialog about what training policy should be. (SK)

Purpose - Proposes to provide a description of the factors that underlie retention and to develop a model of the process of retention. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative study was conducted in a selected number of occupational areas. Interviews were conducted with apprentices and trainees employed under a contract of training…

This article describes "Youthscapes," a year-round afterschool program in the San Francisco East Bay Area (CA) that offers urban youth the opportunity to use technology to reconstruct their identities in at least two ways: (1) by encouraging its apprentices to create media content that directly counteracted stereotypes about urban youth;…

The Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology's 2008-11 business plan identifies how it plans to work over the next three years to enhance advanced learning opportunities and innovation for all Albertans. Alberta's advanced learning system is composed of public board-governed institutions, the apprenticeship and industry training system,…

This article proposes the need to address scaffold instructions from a situated learning perspective. Based on an empirical study of how apprentice bakers learn their trade, it is claimed that studies of learning at the workplace yield important insights into our understanding of scaffold instructions. Seen from the perspective of the apprentices,…

In this ethnographic study of summer undergraduate research (UR) experiences at four liberal arts colleges, where faculty and students work collaboratively on a project of mutual interest in an apprenticeship of authentic science research work, analysis of the accounts of faculty and student participants yields comparative insights into the…