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Labour market programme policies have been the subject of considerable debate within Australia, particularly over the previous two decades. The advent and introduction of the Australian Traineeship Scheme (ATS) represented enormous change within this area of educational policy and has been and still is highly contested and discussed particularly within the spheres of both vocational education and technical and further education.

The author asserts that while much criticism has been levelled at their impact and results, ATS, representing as it does a new method of training and an additional labour market entry point assisting the school-industry transition process, is worth pursuing.

This is a further example of training research conducted by academic staff; the author is from Charles Sturt University. Show less

Labour market program policies have been the subject of considerable debate within Australia, particularly over the previous two decades. The advent and introduction of the Australian Traineeship Scheme (ATS) represented enormous change within this area of educational policy and has been and still is highly contested and discussed particularly within the spheres of both vocational education and technical and further education. The author believes that the ATS is important because it represents a new method of training and an additional labour market entry point assisting the school-industry transition process. Show less