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The Apprentice Retention Program: Evaluation And Implications For Ontario, Ron Hansen, Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Higher Education Quality Council Of Ontario
The Apprentice Retention Program: Evaluation And Implications For Ontario, Ron Hansen, Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Higher Education Quality Council Of Ontario
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Attraction and retention of apprentices and completion of apprenticeships are issues of concern to all stakeholders involved in training, economic development and workforce planning. The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF) has forecast that by 2017 there will be a need to train 316,000 workers to replace the retiring workforce in the construction industry alone (CAF, 2011a). In the automotive sector, shortages are expected to reach between 43,700 and 77,150 by 2021. However, shortages are already widespread across the sector, and CAF survey data show that almost half (48.1%) of employers reported that there was a limited number of qualified staff in …