- Title
- Revisiting apprenticeships as a response to persistent and growing youth unemployment
- Creator
- Smith, Erica
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173295
- Identifier
- vital:14670
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789221323068
- Abstract
- This chapter examines the potential of quality apprenticeship in meeting multiple demands: skill development, changing industry needs, and promoting inclusivity. There are many and large societal and economic expectations of problems which apprenticeship should solve. These expectations vary among various actors. They range from solving youth unemployment and safeguarding decent jobs for young and disadvantaged persons, to supplying companies with a trained workforce, and boosting international competitiveness. More recent demands including apprenticeships’ ability to cope with rapidly changing job roles. There are, however, risks associated with expansion of apprenticeship systems, including the possibility of contributing to exploitation, discrimination and exclusion of social/racial groups and/or certain occupations. Any radical changes risk upsetting existing balances in outcomes for different stakeholder groups. Moreover, apprenticeships need to retain the flexibility to cope with the demands of the future of work.
- Publisher
- ILO Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
- Relation
- Skills and the Future of work: strategies for inclusive growth in Asia and the Pacfic 6 p. 160-179
- Rights
- Copyright © International Labour Organization 2018
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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