- Title
- Managing apprentices and managing PhD students: Current concerns and transferable tips
- Creator
- Smith, Erica
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/43223
- Identifier
- vital:5835
- Abstract
- Apprenticeships and doctoral studies share many characteristics in common, such as the length of the ‘training contract’, and there has been considerable policy attention to both forms of ‘contracted training’ recently, with similar issues raised such as completion rates, timely completion, quality and so on. Companies that manage large numbers of apprentices or trainees face similar challenges to universities that manage large numbers of PhD students. The paper analyses four in-depth interviews drawn from larger research projects - two interviews with company managers responsible for apprentices and trainees, and two with Deans of Graduate Studies at Australian universities, who oversee the management of PhD students. The key points of policy documents in both areas are used to analyse the responses. Differences and similarities in management systems are highlighted, and good practices that could be transplanted between the two environments are identified.
- Publisher
- Canberra, Australia Australian Vocational Education and Training Research
- Relation
- The value and voice of VET research for individuals, industry, community and the nation
- Rights
- Unknown copyright
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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