Adequately preparing in-company supervisors (see below) and VET teachers on how to ensure high quality workplace training, including setting and monitoring its content, would facilitate this task. Systematic assessments of the acquired competences, as currently used in Syntra apprenticeships, are a useful tool in achieving this. They should be extended to other VET programmes. These include pedagogical skills and social skills, such as communication skills, the ability to deal with conflicts and unexpected mistakes (Harris, Simons and Bone, 2000).