Developing work-based learning in Israel

Chapter 2 argues that the development of vocational education and training (VET) in Israel could be significantly aided through attention to work-based learning, building on a range of current initiatives to develop apprenticeship and work-based learning both for young people and adults. This would involve an expansion of apprenticeship programmes and development of systematic shorter work-based learning placements in selected school-based VET programmes. Currently apprenticeship is designed as a path for drop-outs and is seen as a low status option. To become an attractive option both to young people and employers it should be fully integrated into the mainstream upper-secondary system. For adults, diverse work-based learning measures, including apprenticeship, may help to alleviate skills shortages and better integrate disadvantaged social groups into the labour market.