National Survey on Barriers to Apprenticeship

Over the past eight years, the CAF-FCA has played an integral role in supporting the apprenticeship community. With the release of the ground-breaking 2004 research report Accessing and Completing Apprenticeship Training in Canada, Perceptions of Barriers the CAF-FCA’s work and activities became focused, through research and communication activities, on attempting to address the identified barriers to apprenticeship training. The follow-up report, What’s happening in Apprenticeship Now: Stakeholders’ Feedback on the Barriers to Apprenticeship, provides an overview of the current perceptions of the apprenticeship community regarding how well the barriers to apprenticeship have been addressed and identifies areas for future work.

Objectives:

• Gauge stakeholder awareness of key apprenticeship issues and identify where remaining information gaps exist.
• Assess the impact of CAF-FCA’s work within the apprenticeship community by gaining a deeper understanding of how apprenticeship stakeholders have used and been influenced by CAF-FCA’s work.
• Provide an opportunity to inform stakeholders at a national, provincial, and local level of the resources available to help them based on the work CAF-FCA and others have already completed.
• Help focus CAF-FCA’s energies where the apprenticeship community thinks there is the greatest need and provide a clear direction for further work.

Project Status:

The project was overseen by the CAF-FCA Board of Directors and a Working Group, which included a broad cross-section of the apprenticeship community. Corporate Research Associates Inc. was contracted to conduct the research. Survey data was collected between December 2008 and February 2009. Facilitated teleconference call discussions took place in April 2009.

The final report is available online now.

For more information, please contact:
Danielle Matheusik,
Project Manager
613-235-4004 ext. 203 or danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org