- Title
- Pre-apprenticeships in Australia : Differing orientations and their policy implications
- Creator
- Dumbrell, Tom; Smith, Erica
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/34915
- Identifier
- vital:5078
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2012.738428
- Identifier
- ISSN:1363-6820
- Abstract
- Little has been published in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) literature on the topic of pre-apprenticeships, which are a loose type of preparatory courses for apprenticeships available in some trades. Nevertheless, pre-apprenticeships have been in existence for several decades. With continuing concern over skill shortages in Australia, the research study on which this paper is based investigated the role of pre-apprenticeship courses in addressing skill shortages in the electrotechnology, automotive and engineering trades, some of the largest 'traditional trades' in Australia, and those with sizeable numbers in pre-apprenticeships. The principal objective of the overall study was to determine whether the use of pre-apprenticeships increased the size and suitability of the supply of entrants to the traditional apprenticeships and whether pre-apprenticeships do or might increase completion rates in apprenticeships. The paper uses findings from the study to develop a typology of pre-apprenticeship courses, proposing two fundamental orientations and discussing whether different orientations towards pre-apprenticeships are compatible with one another. © 2013 Copyright The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd.
- Relation
- Journal of Vocational Education and Training Vol. 65, no. 2 (2013), p. 161-176
- Rights
- Copyright 2013 The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1301 Education Systems; Apprentices; Pre-apprentices; Training policy
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