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UK / Online apprenticeship applications increase by 41% in a year
More than 267,400 apprenticeship applications were submitted online during November 2012 and January 2013, an increase of 41% on the previous year. The figures released today by the National...
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Canada / The Government Training Agenda
Speaking at the Canada 2020 Conference on Skilled Trades in the Energy Sector in Ottawa Feb. 28, Diane Finley, minister of human resources and skills development, noted labour shortages and skills...
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Canada / Failure to graduate enough tradespeople has been a constant for decades
Canada’s failure to graduate enough tradespeople has been a constant for decades. While Canada had nearly 400,000 registered apprentices in 2010, less than 50 per cent went on to obtain their...
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Canada / The Trouble With Apprenticeship / Overall completion rate was 4.9%...
Skilled labour shortages are expected in Canada. Apprenticeship is seen by many as one of the best ways to provide for a supply of skills matching industry needs. The German model is praised around the...
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UK / An overhaul of vocational education
Teenagers in England are to be offered the chance to take new courses in engineering and construction as part of an overhaul of vocational education. Ministers said they would develop seven...
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Canada – Ontario – Quebec / A confrontation emerges on workforce training
The Minister of Finance of Canada, M. Jim Flaherty and his colleague Human Resources and Skills Development, Mrs. Diane Finley launched theirs courses of action in workforce training last week. It...
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UK / A new framework for post-graduate level higher apprenticeship in...
Skills minister Matthew Hancock (pictured) has welcomed the creation of the first graduate level higher apprenticeships in advanced manufacturing, commercial airline piloting and professional...
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UK / Youth unemployment and the growing failure of education
Unemployment is up by 0.2 per cent to 7.9 per cent. Long term unemployment is on the rise. Youth unemployment is up again, this time by 20,000. Any semblance of a jobs recovery is only visible in low...
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Australia / Is it wise to insist that everyone complete year 12?
A significant number of young Australians can’t stand school and many people are ill suited to a university education. So is it wise to insist that everyone complete year 12? Should we be encouraging...
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Compare attitude on Youth Unemployment and the Apprenticeship Gap
Kudos to David Leonhardt for calling attention to the staggeringly high American youth unemployment rate — 26.6 percent — compared to rates in Europe and Japan. I just want to add that in addition to...
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Canada / Can we do it better in Skilled trades?
A great deal of discussion is going on now about whether Canada is facing a shortage of skilled workers. Whether you are in the camp that believes it is or not, I think most people would agree that a...
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Austria / Apprenticeship Program faces with a deficit of new apprentices
Austria is facing a 17-year decline in the number of 15-year-olds that began in 2007 and won’t turn upward until 2024, according to government data. Faced with a deficit of new apprentices, the...
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UK / Apprenticeships attract 11 applications per vacancy which are at a...
A record 11 applications are being made for each apprenticeship vacancy in the UK, the latest official data suggests. Almost 370,000 applications were submitted between February and April, while 32,600...
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Canada / Total registrations in apprenticeship training programs across...
Total registrations in apprenticeship training programs across Canada declined 1.0% from the previous year to 426,283 in 2011. This was the first decline since 2008. Training programs received 97,605...
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Apprenticeship / Leads to substantially lower unemployment rates research finds
How to best prepare non-college bound youth for the labor market? asks Matthias Parey in Vocational Schooling versus Apprenticeship Training — Evidence from Vacancy Data on cep.lse.ac.uk (Adapted...
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Europe Summit / Youth unemployment / Is a guarantee of a job, training or...
While the EU agreed in April to re-target 6 billion euro to offer a “guarantee” of a job, training or apprenticeship within four months of someone becoming unemployed or leaving formal education, many...
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Angela Merkel on Youth Unemployment / Preaching the merits of Germany’s dual...
In interview with the Guardian, chancellor promotes merits of Germany’s dual system of schooling and work experience, and says she regrets impact of eurozone crisis on young people Angela Merkel has...
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Apprenticeship in the US / Work and learn at the same time
I like that I can have a full-time job and pay my mortgage while going to school,” says chef’s apprentice Brian Schmitt of Davenport, Iowa. “And I like that my job is directly applicable to the work...
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Germany’s Dual System / Just one-third school-leavers each year go to university
For EU leaders racing to and from Berlin yesterday, a pit stop at a Steinecke bakery would have been just as instructive in how to tackle Europe’s youth jobs crisis as chancellor Angela Merkel’s...
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US / Building trades need training programs, not more immigrants writes...
Now that the immigration reform bill has made it through the Senate, members of the House must remember one thing as they debate guest-worker provisions: There are 12 million unemployed workers in this...
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