Non-completers in industry training

These reports explores the reasons apprentices and industry trainees did not completing their industry training qualifications, capturing the voices of non-completing trainees and apprentices to inform the narratives on qualification completion in industry training.

It offers recommendations for potentially effective interventions to increase the qualification completion rates in industry training.

Resource download:

Full report | Learning, life and work: Understanding non-completion of industry training qualifications (PDF, 3Mb)

Summary report | Learning, life and work: Understanding non-completion of industry training qualifications (PDF, 600Kb)

Literature review | The Reasons for the non-completion of apprentices and trainees in industry training organisations (PDF, 2Mb)

Background:

A six-month project, completed in 2016, that aimed to identify the factors associated with the qualification non-completion of level 3 and 4 apprentices and industry trainees.

A collaboration between the Industry Training Federation (ITF) and 12 industry training organisations (ITO).

Report prepared for the Industry Training Federation and Ako Aotearoa by Anne Alkema, Heather McDonald and Nicky Murray, Heathrose Research Ltd.

Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF)