Project details: Creating and Managing Expansive Apprenticeships
Research Team
1. Professor Alison Fuller (Director)
Funding Body
Duration
January 2009 - December 2009
Description
The purpose of this project is to prepare a Guide for training providers and employers to support them in the creation and management of more expansive apprenticeship programmes. Previous research has shown how apprenticeship programmes vary in terms of the nature and scope of the learning opportunities they offer, with some being more ‘expansive’ and some more ‘restrictive’ in character. A range of case studies will be conducted to generate examples of good and improving practice in apprenticeship provision. The Guide will present the ‘expansive-restrictive continuum’ in everyday language and will show, through illustrations from the case studies, how it can be used to improve apprenticeship programmes at both Level 2 and 3, and in different sectors.
