The Apprenticeship Quality Toolkit is a flexible management tool, to be used in a variety of different situations with different purposes:•A guideline for Professional Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to set up the basis for a future apprenticeship management system;•A self-assessment checklist for PHEIs and SMEs to diagnose their spontaneous preparedness to manage apprenticeships in a systematic way;•A self-assessment checklist for PHEIs and SMEs to identify areas of improvement in their apprenticeship-related processes;•A checklist to support Peer-Review initiatives;•A checklist to support external second party audits (PHEIs to SMEs);•A checklist to support external third party audits (by a certification body)

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