Training the Young Worker

Abstract

Commonwealth Technical Training Week will soon be upon us; it will provide a much‐needed occasion for a wide variety of organisations and people to come together solely for the purpose of considering the training of the young worker. It will focus attention on what is rapidly becoming a serious national issue: apprentice training and its possible reorganisation. Apprentice training is not about little boys in short trousers: it is about the way an industrial society restores and builds up its stock of craft workers. This article has been prepared to serve two functions: it sets out a review of apprentice procedures in several countries in the hope that the information may be used as background material for the public discussions, and it offers some views on the nature of the changes which are urgently required

Citation

Wellens, J. (1961), "Training the Young Worker", Education + Training, Vol. 3 No. 5, pp. 21-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014974