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…
Two mechanisms identiied herein may encourage the professional integration of apprentices acquiring CAP or BEP vocational training qualiications. On the one hand, the link between apprentices and their host company may lead to them being kept on in the company after their training period. On the oth…
The difficult situation of young people from ethnic minorities, during the transition from general education to apprenticeship, is well documented in Germany. There are some signs for barriers concerning especially the access of youngsters of ethnic minorities to dual vocational education and traini…
The difficult situation of young people from ethnic minorities, during the transition from general education to apprenticeship, is well documented in Germany.T here are some signs for barriers concerning especially the access of youngsters of ethnic minorities to dual vocational education and traini…
Our investigation followed 14 teenagers during four years after they left middle school, expecting as a prioritary wish, to prepare a certificate of professional capacity with an alternance training. Based on recurrent interviews, our longitudinal analysis characterizes four different types of cours…
To increase the energetic performance of housing, the French state and the professional organizations of the building sector decided to stimulate the market of energy efficiency refurbishment, which required to raise craftsmen's technical skills. For this reason, they conjointly created in 2013 a tr…
Our investigation followed 14 teenagers during four years after they left middle school, expecting as a prioritary wish, to prepare a certificate of professional capacity with an alternance training. Based on recurrent interviews, our longitudinal analysis characterizes four different types of cours…
To increase the energetic performance of housing, the French state and the professional organizations of the building sector decided to stimulate the market of energy efficiency refurbishment, which required to raise craftsmen's technical skills. For this reason, they conjointly created in 2013 a tr…
This contribution is concerned with the interactions between apprentices and trainers during the period of training, in Switzerland. It consists in better understanding interactional processes participating to the reproduction of inequalities. In order to do this, we refer to a qualitative research,…
This article provides an overview of school to work or higher education transitions of young graduates from cantons Geneva and Vaud, eighteen months after their professional diploma. The diploma requirement level as well as the way the training is structured has a clear impact on the nature of the t…
How has social inequality evolved following the expansion of the Swiss educational system during the 20th century? Our analyses, based on twenty-one surveys undertaken between 1972 and 2013, reveal that, even though the expansion of the educational system favored equality of the access to post-compu…
Training networks are a model of vocational training in the dual VET system in Switzerland. Small and medium-sized enterprises can train apprentices jointly. Drawing on four case studies of training networks in Switzerland and on the theory of the economics of conventions, two questions are treated:…
The Federal VET Diploma is a historical qualification in Switzerland. Created in the 1930's, it has become a reference diploma at upper-secondary level. At the same time, the dual-track has become the predominant form of vocational education and training in Switzerland. Nevertheless, while the Feder…
Here we compare the training of cabinetmakers in vocational schools (full-time) and in the dual-system (part-time school and part-time workplace), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, canton of Vaud. The teachings are analyzed and the notion of «professional order» that affects the school par…
In Switzerland, the basic vocational training system is attended by two thirds of the students finishing compulsory schooling. If this training model seems an appropriate remedy in the contemporary international landscape, little is known about the processes by which an apprenticeship is obtained. O…
Compared to school-based vocational training dual apprenticeship in Switzerland provides more specific occupational skills. We examine how an individual's type of education influences the chances of working in an occupation having trained for, to shift occupations, to invest in further education or …
This ethnographic study of the meat sector in Switzerland investigates how an occupation becomes gendered, and more particularly the role played by professional training curricula in this labeling process. It shows how the Swiss meat industry has attempted to combat the negative images potentially a…
The original situation of an experiment on the security of the apprentice pathways in the light of regional policy, provides an opportunity for studying the nature of the relationships and the form of participation or transaction that takes place. The territorial governance of vocational training is…
