Two bills aimed at strengthening and streamlining the federal registered apprenticeship system were introduced last week during National Apprenticeship Week.

Apprenticeships can create a bridge between local employers and the communities they serve. In a labor market marked by high turnover, growing skill gaps, and increasing pressure on employers to adapt ...

Confidence in higher education is falling, and with it college enrollment. Many prospective students are no longer confident that a traditional college degree will equip them with the skills required ...

President Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at expanding federal agencies’ use of apprenticeship programs to attract and develop young federal workers, as well as reinstating agency ...

Emilee Ramirez, center foreground, attends an apprenticeship class at the Laborers Training School in Phoenix on March 19. (Heather Long/The Washington Post) PHOENIX — Emilee Ramirez has something ...

While public sector apprenticeships have long flourished in other countries like Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Australia, the vast majority of U.S. cities, counties and states ...

Strict rules for hiring and promotion tend to shut out apprenticeships from California government employment, but one state employee union has made the arrangements work, ushering employees into ...

At current rates of participation and completion, federal and state government-registered apprenticeship programs will fail to meet the construction industry’s short- and long-term skilled workforce ...