Issues and directions from a review of the Australian apprenticeship and traineeship literature

This paper considers issues and directions arising from a review of recent literature in the Australian apprenticeship and traineeship system. Over 125 post-traineeship references have been scanned for their key topics and issues. Broadly speaking, the paper falls into two parts. The first section looks at issues such as: supply and demand; training policy and system; the public training market; private training investment; measuring training market outputs; training intermediaries, pathways and innovations; and training quality and performance. The second section offers ideas and...  [+] Show more

This paper considers issues and directions arising from a review of recent literature in the Australian apprenticeship and traineeship system. Over 125 post-traineeship references have been scanned for their key topics and issues. Broadly speaking, the paper falls into two parts. The first section looks at issues such as: supply and demand; training policy and system; the public training market; private training investment; measuring training market outputs; training intermediaries, pathways and innovations; and training quality and performance. The second section offers ideas and directions for the future of the entry level training (ELT) system in the broader vocational education and training (VET) system). The ideas and directions are: sharpening training investigation and diagnosis; repositioning the trades in the training marketplace; reviewing the traineeship consensus; broadening the education and training horizons for new pathways to vocational skills; testing new approaches to training markets; widening the avenues for structured training in enterprises; adding pathways and learning models to the work of training intermediaries; and reviewing and reinforcing priorities for training measurement and quality.

Accompanying this publication is 'Review of the Australian apprenticeship and traineeship literature: references and their key issues' (TD/TNC 65.08) which is by the same author and is an annotated bibliography of the majority of the references in this publication.