Apprenticeship is a successful structured training method, one that, for millenniums, has been the method of choice of industries that demand high skilled, competent and flexible workers. The apprenticeship training system is unique in that its basic foundation consists of a partnership between industry, education and government. Creates a diversified and flexible work force and a larger pool of employees with specific, needed skills.
Training system is flexible so future work force needed skills are readily attainable.
Uses available public school facilities for required related theoretical classroom instruction. The Building and Construction Industry has traditionally utilized the apprenticeship system of training, i.e plumber, carpenter, electrician, in meeting its needed skilled work force. Today individuals are being trained through apprenticeship in occupations, such as, culinarian, correctional officer, vocational nurse, nurse, firefighter, machinist, hazardous waste technician, hydroelectric machinery mechanic, automobile mechanic, geriatric specialist, and precision metal fabricator.