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Apprenticeship and Training

Building a pipeline that works: employer commitment, the mechanism that makes programmes real, and why most partnerships fail.

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    Supervising Somebody Who Is Learning

    A programme delivers somebody to a workplace and the workplace determines whether they stay in the trade. Most of what decides that happens in the first ninety days and costs nothing.

  2. 02

    The Employer in the Classroom

    Students choose among paths they have heard described. One path is described in detail everywhere and the others are not described at all, which is a decision the community has made by default.

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    Why Training Partnerships Fail

    The programme launches with everybody present and quietly stops within three years. The cause is nearly always the same: employers committed enthusiasm rather than a mechanism.