All publications: apprentices

Apprenticeships in Asia and the Pacific

Findings from the Regional Training Workshop on Quality Apprenticeships for Asia and the Pacific

A joint ILO/IOE publication

Tools for Quality Apprenticeships: a Guide for Enterprises

Does work-based learning facilitate transitions to decent work?

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 242

ILO Survey Report on the National Initiatives to Promote Quality Apprenticeships in G20 Countries

This report presents the main findings of the ILO survey on national initiatives to promote quality apprenticeships in the G20 member states. It was conducted between September and December 2017 as an ILO initiative to take stock of and widely share...

Skills

EC-ILO action on youth employment policies: Enhancing capabilities of practitioners to design, implement and monitor youth employment...

A summary of project implementation and achievements under Component two: Apprenticeship systems and programmes.

Skills

A step-by-step guide to promote quality apprenticeships

This publication was developed as part of the project entitled "EC-ILO action on youth employment policies: Enhancing capabilities of practitioners to design, implement and monitor youth employment policies - under the Council Recommendation on...

Investing in work based learning

The brochure highlights relevant concepts, data and key resources regarding technical and vocational education and training from The Interagency Group on Technical and vocational education and training (IAG-TVET).

ILO-OECD

Engaging employers in apprenticeship opportunities; Making it happen locally

This joint OECD-ILO report examines best practices in employer engagement in apprenticeship programmes at the local level across nine countries.

The National Skills Development System in Bangladesh (2015)

The EU-funded ‘Technical and Vocational Education and Training Reform in Bangladesh (TVETR)’ project implemented by ILO helped develop strategies, tools and procedures envisioned in the National Skills Development Policy. This publication presents...

Guideline on domestic apprenticeship program in Indonesia

This apprenticeship guideline refers to the technical level apprenticeship definition where apprentices are prospective workers who want to receive relevant work training, instead of school or college students who wish to receive on-the-job...

Field assessment - apprenticeship in Indonesia: report on visits to companies in Balikpapan and Greater Jakarta

This report reflected various aspects in apprenticeship such as recruitment of apprentices, program and duration of apprenticeship, organization of apprenticeship, certification, recruitment of the worker from the result of apprenticeship, etc.

Policy brief

Main findings from a pilot on upgrading informal apprenticeships in Jordan

Upgrading informal apprenticeships has a great potential as a poverty reduction method as it directly targets the main skills training to which the poor have access. It is a step by step process, based on constant negotiations with the employers;...

G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting

G20: Promoting better labour market outcomes for youth

Joint ILO-OECD background paper on youth employment and apprenticeship prepared for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting held in Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 September 2014.

Innovative Apprenticeship and Internship Models in the IT Sector in the United States

Findings of the follow-up study on former child labourers trained on entrepreneurship and apprenticeship - The cases of Kisumu and Nairobi...

This study sought to find out if there was any added advantage that entrepreneurship skills training had on the trainees and it compares post training progression between trainees who had received entrepreneurship training to those who in addition...

Possible futures for the Indian Apprenticeship System: Options paper for India

This report presents the Indian case study and the options paper for reform in a single reference, a report which has already provided timely inputs to the on-going reform of apprenticeships in India.

Feasibility study for a global business network on apprenticeship

Youth poverty in Accra: urban livelihoods in informal apprenticeships

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 21

Key Elements of Quality Apprenticeships

Skills for Employment Policy Brief

Upgrading Informal Apprenticeship Systems

Part of the Policy Brief Series produced by the Skills and Employability Branch.