International Dictionary of Adult and Continuing Education
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, regarded as just a matter of learning to copy the expert. The term has enjoyed a return to popularity in more recent years, since the increasing emphasis on the place of practical knowledge in vocational education.
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