CVER's Hilary Steedman and colleagues have been looking at training in one area of the automotive sector.  Car Service is central to the supply chain of the wider automotive sector, identified as a leading performer in the UK government’s 2017 Industrial Strategy. We asked Car Service employers in Germany, UK and Spain about skill shortages and their experience of training apprentices in the workplace. Car Service technicians are trained in apprenticeship in Germany and the UK. The UK Advanced Apprenticeship and German 3-year Apprenticeship aim for a similar set of standards. In Spain, technicians are trained in full-time College courses which include a short period of work experience. In all three countries most firms are small. Using both case study and survey evidence we found that German and UK firms report high levels of satisfaction with apprentices’ practical and theoretical skills. Spanish firms found that the short work placement did not develop the practical competences needed but used the work placement to screen trainees for employment.

Related publications

‘Building apprentices’ skills in the workplace: Car Service in Germany, the UK and Spain’, by Philipp Grollmann, Hilary Steedman, Anika Jansen and Robert Gray", CVER Research Paper 011, December 2017

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Hilary Steedman webpage:  http://cver.lse.ac.uk/about/Expert_Advisors.asp#Steedman

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