CYP Now - Youth workers: degree vs apprenticeship debate

Experts at a recent conference assessed the merits of different training routes for youth workers.

Professor Mike Seal said employers still “want and recognise the quality” that a degree in youth and community work gives

Youth work training is at a crossroads with questions over whether it remains a university-based course or moves more towards an employer-led apprenticeship model. This was the premise of a debate at the recent 4th Commonwealth Conference on Youth Work held at Reading University.

The conference, titled The Power of Youth Work: Forging a Sustainable and Peaceful Common Future, was hosted by the National Youth Agency and attracted more than 250 delegates in person and another 1,000 online from dozens of countries worldwide.

The session on youth work training in higher education was framed against the backdrop of falling numbers of youth work courses being run in the UK over the past decade.

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