UNEVOC Connect

An inclusive term referring to anyone learning, including pupils at school; students at colleges, traditional universities, comprehensives, and universities of technology; apprentices, learners in learnerships, interns; people undergoing training, and people learning non-formally and informally as well as people enrolled for particular qualifications or part qualifications.

• as used in TESDA, the term refers to a person hired as trainees in semi-skilled and other industrial occupations which are non-apprenticeable. (Revised Guidelines in the Implementation Apprenticeship and Learnership Programs)/RA 7796/TESDA Law)
• an inclusive term referring to anyone learning, including pupils at school; students at colleges, traditional universities, comprehensives, and universities of technology; apprentices, learners in learnerships, interns; people undergoing training, and people learning non-formally and informally as well as people enrolled for particular qualifications or part qualifications. (SAQA 2013, South Africa)
• also referred to as a trainee, who participates in the learning activities in SIL to enhance competencies initially attained from an institution-based training. (TESDA Circular No. 089 s. 2019)
• refers to a person hired as a trainee in industrial occupations that are non-apprenticeable and which may be learned through practical training on the job not exceeding three (3) months, whether or not such practical training is supplemented by theoretical instructions. (section 1, Rule VII, Book II, Omnibus Rules Implementing me Labor Code)