This study analyses the effect of acquiring vocational training or apprenticeship on youth employment in Cameroon. The results highlight the positive effect of acquiring vocational training or apprenticeship on access to employment on youth employment. The marginal effect is slightly lower for forma…
This article presents a monograph on an ECVET (European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training) experiment. It draws on action research carried out between 2016 and 2018 with training managers who have integrated periods of certified mobility within apprentice training centres (CFA) int…
The selection applied at the entry in apprenticeship sheds light on a border area, the scenes between school and entry into vocational training. In a context of disqualification of in-school vocational training and valorization of in-company vocational training, the entry into apprenticeship becomes…
In the Swiss apprenticeship system, the recruitment of apprentices is hardly regulated by the state and is largely left to the training companies. Based on the views of on-thejob trainers, this paper aims to gain a better understanding of the process of recruiting apprentices and the selection crite…
This paper studies the apprenticeship training system of two special education professions (specialised educator and monitor) as an intermediation system. This analysis studies both intermediation through apprenticeship and intermediation within apprenticeship: The productive (professional integrati…
For four years after the 4th year of secondary school, a longitudinal survey using recurrent interviews followed secondary school students who aspired to prepare a CAP (professionnal aptitude certificate) through apprenticeship. This article is based on the longterm portraits of eleven of them who o…
French initial vocational training underwent a process of schooling from the middle of the 20th century, under the influence of the school form model. This study analyzes the case of a private sector initiative, still too little known, which appeared at the end of the 19th century and is now expandi…
The section of adapted general and vocational education (SEGPA), in France, takes place before schooling and vocational training in high schools or apprentice training centres. It includes vocational training, workshops and internships, for 14 to 16 years old students. Although it is in secondary sc…
This paper compares how well apprenticeship training helps open the door to the labour market in France and Germany between 1998 and 2013. The data used come from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the Enquêtes Génération from Céreq. Estimates using instrumental variables reveal that, in relation t…
This article aims at describing in a methodical way how work situations involving the provision of services to « users » may entail specific contingencies and opportunities for novice workers when they have to learn practical skills during internships. The paper is based on video-ethnographic case s…
The paper looks behind the formal requirements in-company trainers in German apprenticeship have to fulfil and explores what keeps them actively involved in the training mandate of the firm. Based on accounts of various practitioners within the company context, a complex social dynamic between the m…
In Switzerland, dual-vet apprenticeship represents the most used form of initial vocational training. It is recognized for its success in terms of learning of a profession as well as professional integration. However, almost a quarter of youths interrupt their training prematurely. Analyzing this ph…
This paper addresses social competences in vocational education and training (VET) and initial training since they form basic components of professional competence in most occupational sectors. From an empirical competence research approach in VET, it argues that there is a need for a clarification …
This article approaches apprenticeship in France and Germany through the analyse of local public policies in Alsace (France), and especially the program of “cross-border apprenticeship”. Local French and German stakeholders' practices and representations will be analysed, in order to examine to what…
This paper compares how well apprenticeship training helps open the door to the labour market in France and Germany between 1998 and 2013. The data used come from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the Enquêtes Génération from Céreq. Estimates using instrumental variables reveal that, in relation t…
The German apprenticeship training system depends on firms' willingness to train youth. Using German firm-level data, this paper discusses which motives drive firms' participation in training apprentices. A focus is given to those firms that do not fit the standard economic argumentation of the prod…
The paper looks behind the formal requirements in-company trainers in German apprenticeship have to fulfil and explores what keeps them actively involved in the training mandate of the firm. Based on accounts of various practitioners within the company context, a complex social dynamic between the m…
