The rebirth of apprenticeship in Europe: linking education to work?

Leonardo SPES-NET. Final report, section 3 January 2000

Fernando Marhuenda Fluixà
Departament de Didàctica i Organització Escolar
Universitat de València (Spain)

Abstract.

In these pages I review the different notions of Apprenticeship underlying Employment and Education policies of four member States of the European Union: Spain, Great Britain, France and Germany. What I intend with this paper is to analyse the status quo in each of these member countries of the European Union, trying to sort out at the end of it the common trends which can be found in them. My perspective for the analysis will focus on the consideration of apprenticeships basically as one more scheme, pretentiously new, in the fight against youth unemployment. A measure which, as opposed to the majority of them, has the adjacent aim of educating the youth in their process of initiation into the vocational world; this being an aspect which receives different attention by the different European countries, despite underlying all of the apprenticeship policies in them.

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