First Year Apprentices' Experiences in the Workplace

Project Summary

This project aimed to identify the factors that influence apprentices' initial decisions to enter into and commit to an indenture. Apprentices' perceptions of their entry trajectory and initial workplace learning experiences was measured, and the experiences of potential, continuing, and unsuccessful apprentices compared.

This project  enables the learner experience to be usefully incorporated into the design of guidelines for the improvement of induction processes and initial training for apprentices, thus contributing to increased retention and improved apprenticeship completions.

Project Team

• Selena Chan (Contact Project Leader), Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
• Dr Robyn Chandler, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
• Tracey Shepherd, Agriculture ITO
• Charles Hayward, Boating ITO
• Loretta Garrow, Building and Construction ITO
• Mary Kingsbury, Competenz
• Erica Cummings, Hairdressing ITO
• Glen Keith, Hospitality Standards Institute
• Deb Paul, Joinery ITO

Project Funding

$79,630 GST exc.

Key Dates

• Project commence: early 2010
• Project completed: November 2011

Outputs

Final report: Chan,S. (November 2011) Belonging, becoming and being: first year apprentices' experiences in the workplace

Brochure for apprentices: Being an apprentice (November 2011)

Presentation given at the 2011 Ako Aotearoa Research in Progress Colloquium

Presentation about the project at the Ako Aotearoa Research in Progress Colloquium 2010 (clink on ppt image to left)