Economic Affairs - Fifth Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
ABSTRACT
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Broad trends in skill demand, and implications of low skills of young people for the UK economy
Skills of young people in the UK compared to other OECD countries
Table 1: Level 2+and Level 3+ by age for UK, France and Germany
Skills, earnings and employment probabilities
Chapter 3: The case for investment in apprenticeship training for low-skilled young people
Comparing US and European provision for post-16 education and training
Apprenticeship in the UK since 1994
Figure 1: Numbers in apprenticeship and other government-supported work-based learning by programme 1995-2006
Young people seeking apprenticeship
Apprentices' views of apprenticeship
Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET)
The value of apprenticeship for earnings and employment
Benefits to employers
Chapter 4: Training of low-skilled young people abroad—apprenticeship in Germany and Switzerland
Apprenticeship in dual system countries
Employers' role in apprenticeship design
Learning about apprenticeship in school
Maintaining employer demand for apprentices
Cost-sharing in apprenticeship
Completion and progression
Chapter 5: Apprenticeship: barriers to participation by young people
Progress to Level 2 by age
Lack of urgency in addressing basic skills
Many young people unfitted to start apprenticeship
Schools fail to prepare for and promote apprenticeship
Prior qualifications of apprentices
Table 2: Highest Prior Attainment Level of Advanced Apprentices (Level 3) in 2005/06 (%)
Table 3: Highest Prior Attainment Level of Apprentices (Level 2) in 2005/06 (%)
Pressure of targets for apprenticeship 'starts'
Failure of careers guidance services
Failure to generate apprenticeship places
Chapter 6: Employers: marginalised at the end of a long chain of administration
Table 4: Planned Learning and Skills Council Expenditure 2006-07
Employers not sufficiently involved 85
Advantages of employer involvement
Chapter 7: Problems of quality, access and progression
Variability in standards and time allowed for training
Demands of apprenticeship qualifications reduced
Level 3 for many more apprentices
Little progression and no reliable data
Young women benefit less from apprenticeship
Minorities under-represented
Poor completion rates
Figure 2: Success rates on Advanced Apprenticeships (Level 3) and Apprenticeships (Level 2) in 15 large sector frameworks, 2005-06
Chapter 8: Apprenticeship within the broader government policy framework—an unsettled landscape lacking in coherence
No one organisation in charge
Sector Skills Councils may be unable to cope
The fate of the Technical Certificate
The Apprenticeship Diploma
Policy to engage employers
Apprenticeship entitlement—a long history
Chapter 9: Conclusions and Recommendations
Broad trends in skill demand, and implications of low skills of young people for the UK economy
The case for investment in apprenticeship training for low-skilled young people
Training of low-skilled young people abroad—apprenticeship in Switzerland and Germany
Apprenticeship: barriers to participation by young people
Employers: marginalised at the end of a long chain ofadministration
Quality and variability of apprenticeship frameworks, equity,aspirations and progression, completion of apprenticeship framework
Apprenticeship within the broader government policy framework—an unsettled landscape lacking in coherence
Appendix 1: Economic Affairs Committee
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: Visit to Aylesbury Training Group, 1 May 2007
Appendix 5: Glossary
NOTE: References in the text of the report
are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume
I, HL Paper 138-I.
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume
II, HL Paper 138-II.
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 138-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 138-II)
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