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Apprenticeship in the British ‘Training Market’

University of Cambridge, King’s College, Cambridge CB2 1ST, pr23{at}econ.cam.ac.uk

Lorna Unwin

University of Leicester, Centre for Labour Market Studies, 7 Salisbury Rd, Leicester LE1 7QR, l.unwin{at}le.ac.uk

British apprenticeship, now dependent on the Modern Apprenticeship programme, is compared in this paper to both German apprenticeship and its national predecessor, Youth Training. Modern Apprenticeship shares many of the attributes of Youth Training, and shows some improvement in terms of skills produced. However, British apprenticeship performs poorly, in terms of rates of qualification and completion, as well as in breadth and depth of training, relative to its German counterpart, despite the provision by Modern Apprenticeship of substantial government financial support. The fact that MA resembles YT more than German apprenticeship reflects continuing institutional differences between the two countries, notably the limitations of the training quasi-market in which both YT and MA have operated. The prospects for MA to flourish, let alone perform the educational role that the government envisages for it, are bleak in the absence of institutional development along different lines.

National Institute Economic Review, Vol. 178, No. 1, 99-114 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/002795010117800114


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