Apprenticeship learning (AL) is a class of “learning from demonstrations” techniques where the reward function of a Markov Decision Process (MDP) is unknown to the learning agent and the agent has to derive a good policy by observing an expert’s demonstrations. In this paper, we study the problem of how to make AL algorithms inherently safe while still meeting its learning objective. We conside...

Skills training in the informal economy, known as apprenticeship, caters to skills needs of millions young people Global South. While it predates development formal Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) systems, was not until ‘discovery’ economy 1970s that attention drawn this important system training. Despite importance is striking there has been a paucity academic research on ed...

The school-to-work transition presents a substantial regulatory challenge for youth in modern societies. Based on the action-phase model of developmental regulation, we investigated the effects of goal engagement on transition outcomes in a high-density longitudinal study of noncollege-bound German adolescents (N5 362). Career-related goal engagement was important for attaining a desired career...