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Enhancing Interns' Aspirations towards the Labour Market through Skill-Acquisition: The Second Chance Schools Experience

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  • Arico, Fabio
  • Lasselle, Laurence

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Second Change School programmes are active in a number of European countries. These schools offer vulnerable young adults an alternative opportunity to enhance their employability skills by alternating education with work experience. People enrolling in these programmes disengaged from schools at an early age. They already experienced or are at-risk to enter into unemployment. This paper examines the impact of the Second Chance Schools on their participants’ aspirations towards the labour market through skill-acquisition. We are able to identify the perception of Second Chance Schools’ interns regarding entry to the professional life. A third of them, for example, consider their attitude or their surroundings as a barrier preventing them from getting a job. However, our results emphasise the role of the interns’ coach in improving their aspirations towards the labour market. We also show that when compared to male interns, female interns have a stronger (positive) perception of the school as a place where they can gain skills.

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  • Arico, Fabio & Lasselle, Laurence, 2010. "Enhancing Interns' Aspirations towards the Labour Market through Skill-Acquisition: The Second Chance Schools Experience," SIRE Discussion Papers 2010-56, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).
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    1. Aricò, Fabio & Lasselle, Laurence & Thampanishvong, Kannika, 2010. "Improving Students’ Learning Aspirations Beyond Post-Primary Education: A First Account of Two Non-Formal Education Programmes in Middle-Income," SIRE Discussion Papers 2010-63, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).
    2. Tukundane, Cuthbert & Minnaert, Alexander & Zeelen, Jacques & Kanyandago, Peter, 2015. "A review of enabling factors in support intervention programmes for early school leavers: What are the implications for Sub-Saharan Africa?," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 54-62.

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