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apprenticeship

Form of training where young workers, ‘apprentices’, are taken on by an employer and trained to a given level of competence in a particular trade or profession. Training can be a mixture of on-the-job and off-the-job training.

Apprenticeships began with medieval craft guilds, where for seven years an apprentice lived with a master before becoming a journeyman and employed for a wage.



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Milloy said getting more people turned onto the trades, investing and enhancing the apprenticeship system has been a huge priority of the McGuinty government since 2003.
By putting these youngsters through our own apprenticeship system, it instills a greater loyalty to the company and, as a result, improves staff retention.
said: "There are going to be some changes in the apprenticeship system with the National Apprenticeship Service and vacancy matching, which will allow employers to put vacancies online.
 
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