Off-the-Job Training and Lifeskilling

Abstract

The Youth Training Scheme aims to provide school leavers with an integrated programme of work experience, training and education. Organisationally, it can be broken down into two main components — work experience and off-the-job training. This chapter focuses in on working-class youth experiences of a variety of types of off-the-job training, particularly as they relate to different lifeskilling regimes. While attention is given to the often conflicting relationship between these experiences, official MSC pronouncements and the actual day-to-day operation of different types of schemes, the primary point of view expressed will be that of the trainees themselves.