Effects of apprenticeship on the short-term educational outcomes of vocational high-school students
José de Amesti & Susana Claro
Apprenticeship increase employment opportunities, but what about academic outcomes?
Apprenticeship-based high schools increase employment outcomes compared to school-based-only vocational education: countries that implement apprenticeship have eased the school-to-work transition and reduced youth unemployment. Despite these promising benefits of apprenticeship, there is almost no evidence of its impact on students’ educational outcomes. In fact, some worry that spending less time at school could motivate students to leave the academic path to join the workplace instead, causing apprentices to achieve lower educational attainment.