The Corporate Response to YTS—Part II:: Empirical Research in the South East of England

Abstract

In the 1970s there was a growing realisation of a need to prepare young people for work. It was hoped by many that public policy initiatives in vocational preparation would enable Britain to catch up with the more systematic youth training practices of its European neighbours. Ironically, the development of vocational preparation has really been fostered by the employment crisis of the 1980s. As unemployment began to climb in the late 1970s and surged in the early 1980s, the scale of training measures, paid out of public funds, likewise expanded. The YTS programme is a product of these trends.

Citation

Joyce, P., Woods, A. and Hayes, M. (1985), "The Corporate Response to YTS—Part II:: Empirical Research in the South East of England", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014218