Using case studies from Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan, this text traces cross-national differences in contemporary training regimes back to the political settlement achieved among employers in skill-intensive industries, artisans and early trade unions in the 19th century

In the context of a rapidly changing world of work, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened pre-existing challenges to Japan’s adult learning system and raised new ones. This report examines how skill requirements have been evolving in Japan prior to and during the COVID-19 crisis. It examines...

[The government panel responsible for reviewing the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) has just announced it plans to propose abolishing it. This is much welcomed by those who have been concerned about the programme’s failures and unnecessary pain and suffering it brought to the interns....