The City & Guilds Alliance is an active strategic partnership of leading vocational education, training and research organisations. Our mission is to work collaboratively to represent the interests of the FE, training and skills sector to support and achieve the delivery of world class teaching, learning and assessment. Founding partners are City & Guilds, 157 Group, Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP).
Remaking ApprenticeshipsThe Alliance commissioned thought leaders in vocational and expansive education, Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer, to conduct research into the quality of learning received by apprentices, resulting in the report ‘Remaking Apprenticeships’.
The report considers the pedagogy of apprenticeships, and provides recommendations to take apprenticeships successfully into the future. Additionally, the report looks at the issues that have stopped apprenticeships from reaching their potential in the UK in recent decades, including the interference of successive governments, which have led this once well-respected training route to gain a poor reputation.
It notes that apprenticeships now need to be clearly defined and rebranded so they once again become synonymous with the very highest quality.
Remaking Apprenticeships makes a compelling case for putting learning back into apprenticeships and concludes that everyone involved needs to work together towards one common goal with clearly defined roles and with employers leading the way.
You can download the report from http://www.cityandguilds.com/what-we-offer/centres/apprenticeships/remaking.