Built to last: apprenticeship vision, purpose, and resilience in times of crisis: short papers from the Cedefop community of apprenticeship experts.
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Increasingly, countries around the world, at all levels of development are putting work-based learning, particularly apprenticeships, high on their policy agenda, recognizing its potential for reducing skills mismatch, meeting skills demand of a fast changing labour market, providing cost-effective training, promoting private sector development and smoothing transitions to the world of work.
Moreover, the issue of how skills are used in the workplace and how businesses engage with the local skills ecosystem are getting greater attention. It is increasingly recognized that workers who better use their skills are more likely to have greater job satisfaction, earn better wages and are more prepared to adapt to changes in the nature of work, while employers benefit from a more productive and innovative workforce, enabling them to maximise business performance and profitability.
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The 2008 financial crisis, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic, presented significant challenges – along with some opportunities – for apprenticeship systems and schemes across Europe, bringing into focus their resilience in times of crisis. These events, along with trends such as the green and digital transitions, have triggered discussions among relevant stakeholders on the purpose and their overall vision for apprenticeships in their countries.
This publication comprises papers drafted by Cedefop’s community of apprenticeship experts on apprenticeship resilience, and apprenticeship vision and purpose. To complement the country-specific angle, Cedefop developed a comparative, cross-scheme and cross-country analysis and shared its reflections.
The publication shows that approaches may vary significantly between individual EU Member States. It also reveals that the two topics examined are connected, and share similarities in the way apprenticeship schemes are designed and governed. Understanding such interconnections will help policy-makers to introduce better targeted and more effective reforms that benefit learners, employers and societies.
Apprenticeships
Vocational training
Work-based learning
Europe and Central Asia
