Start Date
6-6-2017 12:00 AM
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Short Abstract:
There are twenty-seven statutory Apprenticeships in Ireland. The Department of Education and Skills has a strategy to develop over a hundred new Apprenticeships. This paper addresses the steps being taken to develop these programmes and to encourage stakeholders to engage with Apprenticeship as a mode of education.
Full Abstract:
There are twenty-seven statutory Apprenticeships in Ireland. The Department of Education and Skills has a strategy to develop over a hundred new Apprenticeships.
Without a strong industrial heritage, and having developed significant Higher Education capacity only in recent decades, Irish society has a limited perception of the purpose of and advantages of vocational education. The benefits to Industry and to Society of having a skilled work-force is evident, but the skills needs exist across a range of areas which are not typically the purview of Higher Education Establishments. These factors present a challenge to the thinking of all stakeholders including academics, students, parents, employers and state agencies.
This paper addresses the steps being taken to develop these programmes and to encourage stakeholders to engage with Apprenticeship as a mode of education. It also sets out the strategy for developing and delivering such national offerings with support from the state and from industry partners.
New Apprenticeships in Ireland
Short Abstract:
There are twenty-seven statutory Apprenticeships in Ireland. The Department of Education and Skills has a strategy to develop over a hundred new Apprenticeships. This paper addresses the steps being taken to develop these programmes and to encourage stakeholders to engage with Apprenticeship as a mode of education.
Full Abstract:
There are twenty-seven statutory Apprenticeships in Ireland. The Department of Education and Skills has a strategy to develop over a hundred new Apprenticeships.
Without a strong industrial heritage, and having developed significant Higher Education capacity only in recent decades, Irish society has a limited perception of the purpose of and advantages of vocational education. The benefits to Industry and to Society of having a skilled work-force is evident, but the skills needs exist across a range of areas which are not typically the purview of Higher Education Establishments. These factors present a challenge to the thinking of all stakeholders including academics, students, parents, employers and state agencies.
This paper addresses the steps being taken to develop these programmes and to encourage stakeholders to engage with Apprenticeship as a mode of education. It also sets out the strategy for developing and delivering such national offerings with support from the state and from industry partners.