A period of training in a firm which enables a trainee to learn a craft under the supervision of a skilled worker. The length of the apprenticeship varies from trade to trade and country to country. Adam SMITH noted that in ancient times the period was...

A development in work-based training introduced in 1995. Its aim is to attract able 16–17-year-olds to work-based training where people learn in a working environment, on and off the job, in order to achieve an NVQ at Level 3 within three years....

The period in which a young person is attached to a master, or an organized programme of training, in order to learn a trade or a profession. Hence, the derogatory phrase ‘sitting by Nellie’, because it was basically, and perhaps wrongly,...

A very traditional method of learning a craft or trade by serving under the supervision of a master craftsman, originally for a seven-year period. After the Second World War, apprenticeship numbers declined, probably because there was full employment...

Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled crafts practitioners. Apprentices (or in early modern usage "prentices") build their careers from apprenticeships. Most of their training is done on the job while working for an employer...

Beatrice Mayo practiced law in Maine for more than half a century before retiring in 1994. But she never spent a day in law school.After high school, Mayo went to work for an attorney in Augusta and took an interest in his law books. She...

Thinking about going back to school? Think again. Yes, it might open doors to a better job and, yes, you might learn some things of value. Besides, a back-to-school stint gives you a socially acceptable excuse for not working. That's especially attractive if you're one...

In 1957, when Spark was 39 and unknown, someone at the English publisher Hamish Hamilton sent along to a friend at The New Yorker a startling story that had lately been published (in a magazine called Botteghe Oscure) by an unknown called Muriel Spark. "The...