Large employers and apprenticeship training in Britain

P Ryan; H Gospel; P Lewis

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2007.00605.x

Large employers and apprenticeship training in Britain

P Ryan, H Gospel, P Lewis

King's Business School

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We consider the link between apprenticeship and large employers in Britain, 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 managers in 28 organizations. We find that apprenticeship functions to only a limited extent outside AA, and then primarily because of the ineligibility of particular categories of trainee. The use that employers make of apprenticeship varies considerably, in association with its cost-effectiveness relative to recruitment and upgrade training within human resource management strategy, and with employers' evaluations of the technical content of AA qualifications. The prospects for increased sponsorship of apprenticeship by large organizations are curbed by the greater appeal of recruitment and upgrade training in various contexts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	127 - 153
Number of pages	27
Journal	British Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2007.00605.x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2007

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