Matching Supply and Demand
Apprenticeship is a demand driven system. This is the reason why skills assessment and skills forecasting play a central role in all apprenticeship system to ensure system dynamism and that students who have completed apprenticeship are attractive in the labour market. The social partners play the key role at all system level in monitoring developments in the labour market to ensure a match between supply and demand. This effort may be supplemented by specific studies to analyse supply and demand in more depths undertaken by the social partners or by research organisations and consultants. The monitoring of the developments in supply and demand is also supported by data collection on such issues as the number of apprenticeship openings across regions and sectors, transition pathways to the labour market for different occupations and regions.
Matching Supply and Demand in Austria
Apprenticeship training in Austria is based on demand. Companies are training apprentices for the unforeseen skill needs in the future as well as securing the supply of skilled workers.
Matching Supply and Demand in Denmark
The process from the identification of new skills needs to the introduction of a new qualification involves many stakeholders. This is formally stipulated in the legislation, which states that the content of the qualification should as far as possible be based on analyses and prognoses of qualification demands.
Matching Supply and Demand in Germany
Supply of and demand for apprenticeship places follows the market principle. For this reason, the government monitors developments on the training market and implements measures to support an adequate matching of supply and demand.
Matching Supply and Demand in Luxembourg
The VET offer is defined and updated annually in the frame of the partnership between the State and the social partners. The close cooperation of the representatives from school and the world of work in the curricular working groups elaborating the VET programmes guarantee a close match between the learning outcomes of the VET programmes and the needs of the labour market.
Matching Supply and Demand in Switzerland
In Switzerland, there is an apprenticeship market since young people compete for an apprenticeship contract with a company, which is the entry ticket for enrolling in a VET programme. The State plays a mediating role assuring good framework conditions (f. ex. career guidance counselling). The private sector is highly involved in the development and provision of VET and PE programmes. Actually, trade/industry associations contribute substantially to the matching of supply and demand in those programmes by anticipating and assessing the skills needs of the labour market.
These activities are supported by the monitoring of the matching of supply and demand in VET programmes and other statistics gathered and published periodically.