The vocational education and training sector is an important source of qualifications for associate professionals, the second fastest growing occupational group in Australia's labour market. This report offers employers, industry organisations, and professional associations an insight into the benefits of contracted work-based training arrangements for training associate professionals.

However, as John Stanwick and John Saunders show, relatively few undertake training at this level through apprenticeship-type pathways. The main issues to consider if adopting an apprenticeship model of training for this group are training arrangements, financial considerations, and promotion of New Apprenticeships.