From this morning's Google Alerts comes this working paper from Cedefop on 'Built to last: Apprenticeship vision, purpose, and resilience in times of crisis'.
Across 120 pages, the working paper, published this month, reports on the experiences, through apprenticeship experts from 11 European countries. An introduction and a comparative analysis fronts the paper, providing context and overview of the challenges.
In general, each chapter covers an introduction, then analyses how and why participation has changed in times of crisis (for Europe, this includes the 2008 financial crisis and the present pandemic), and details the work being undertaken to encourage 'company' participation.
As apprenticeship is a social-economic and politically driven enterprise, each country has approached the challenge with pragmatic policy 'solutions', often backed by monetary incentives to employers. How sustainable this approach is, in the long term, needs to be investigated.
The working paper provides a good 'state of play' across European apprenticeships systems and approaches. Given how many countries look to Europe for direction in how to structure, support and sustain apprenticeship, the report is a timely contribution.
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