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Definition of possible collaborative apprenticeship schemes

United Kingdom

As detailed earlier in this document, the UK has a small number of shared

apprenticeship schemes running currently (2019) and opportunities are spreading
throughout regions and industry sectors. The existing schemes that are showing

strong success need replication across the country as well as integration across
different industries to continue growth and provide further opportunities for

young people, whilst also providing the growing number of small and micro
enterprises in the UK, the possibility of utilising an apprentice and shaping the
workforce of the future.

Germany

In Germany Collaborative training means that a company provides vocational
training together with another firm or with an education provider. This option is
particularly interesting for companies that are unable to teach all the content that

is prescribed by the training regulations.

The following models can be used to ensure that the vocational training provided
is complete:

Often, one company is the primary provider of in-house vocational training and the

second company only takes charge of the learning content that the first is unable
to provide. For example, a restaurant is able to instruct a trainee cook in everything
except the subject “large-scale events”. The trainee therefore switches to a hotel

restaurant for training in this area. In this case, the restaurant signs a training
contract with the trainee and appends a written agreement with the hotel to it.

Good experience has been gathered with collaborative training models in which
several firms work together with an education provider. The education provider

coordinates the vocational training and can also sign the training contract itself.
The trainee then spends a stipulated amount of time in the firm, at the part-time

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