National Adult Literacy Database

This report grew out of a forum held in February 2010 that brought together stakeholders in apprenticeship programs from across Canada.

Key suggestions from the forum included communicating to youth, parents, educators, guidance counsellors and employers the benefits of participating in a high-school-to-apprenticeship transition program; recognizing learner achievement to encourage completion of such programs; enhancing program flexibility and adaptability; getting buy-in from school boards, administrators and industry to grow and maintain programs; and doing more to measure the performance of transition programs.

Data from a survey showed that only seven per cent of people registered as apprentices in Canada between 2002 and 2004 had taken part in a youth apprenticeship program before leaving high school.