Manufacturing workers possess critical on-the-ground insights shaped by their daily engagement with production systems, technologies, and organizational routines. Yet in many small- and mid-sized manufacturing firms, these insights are underutilized, constrained by limited resources, rigid managemen…
The German Dual System has attracted some considerable attention in recent years, with a number of countries, above all in Southern Europe, trying to introduce similar concepts of structured apprenticeships leading to initial vocational qualifications. Quite manifestly, there is expectation among po…
Germany’s vocational education and training system, the so-called dual system of vocational education, has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Within the dual system, the company provides practical training while the vocational school supplements this on-the-job learning with theoretical ins…
There is widespread acknowledgement that the vocational education system in Britain needs to be much more effective. Its attractiveness and quality impacts on business, young people and communities alike. Many attempts have been made at reform, with a continuously changing institutional and funding …
There is a crisis in the training and skills provision of the Channel Island of Jersey's construction industry that has similarities with the situation in Britain. The main problems relate to the unavailability, inappropriateness and narrow focus of skills, the demand-driven and task- or job-specifi…
