This report outlines, in a fashion intelligible to non-specialists, the principal theoretical framework used to analyse both employers' and employees' decisions about whether or not to participate in apprenticeship training, and also the case for government intervention designed to encourage...

This encyclopaedia entry defines what an 'apprenticeship' is and briefly outlines the virtues of apprenticeship as a means of training and a way of enabling young people to make the transition from school to work. Two broad theoretical perspectives on employers' decisions about whether or not to...

We consider the prospects for apprenticeship in British retailing, in terms of the contribution of apprenticeship to intermediate skills and the contribution of large employers to the Advanced Apprenticeship (AA) programme. Evidence is taken from interviews with training and HR managers from 17...