The aim of thi ' thesis lIIas to investigate the sllccess and challenges encountered inrnimplementing apprenticeship program in some selected TVET college in Addis Ababa. Tornthis end, an allel71pt lIIas made to look into the link between TVET instilutes and Ihe world 0/rn1II0rk. The fundamental/actors affecting this link such as th: le.Jial ji-all7ewo.rk, wor'P.!..qjernlearning environmenls, roles of each parlicipating parly and Ihe stale of resources devoted 10rnIhe training have been assessed. A descriptive 'urvey method Hlas employed to identify thernJJ1(!ior problems encountered in the course of implemenling apprenliceship training in 18rnTVET colleges/aund in the Region. These sample TVET Col/eges were selected on the basirn01 purposive sampling. The subjects o.lthe study were / H Deans, /8 Vocational cOl/ncilor~.rn270 Trainees ((l1d 1(' Illorkplace supervisors. The re.polldel7fs sampling lias carried OlllrnIhrough purposive, availability, and random sampling technic/ues, depending on Ihe naturernalld size of the sample respondents. iJ?(ormation's was gathered using questionnaires.rnil1lerviells, ob 'ervalions and documents. The result 0.( Ihe study depicted thaI, apprenticeshiprntraining was not backed by legal(,.wnelork and the selection of organizations was not basedrnon some delined criteria. '{he readiness (?/the or'5anizations to cooperate las above averagern.lor gover/lmental a/ld beloll' average lor the private once. An allempt made LV enhancern./urlher cooperation/or instance by offering incentives were inadequate. Thus, trainees werernexc:ludedfrom the training due to inadequacy of organizations. inconvenience of the trainingrnperiod and lack o.lfinancial supporl. Hence. it is concluded thaI trainees run the risks of notrnbeing insured for accidenls Ihat occllr on production activities and majority of thernorganizations didn'l pay trainees for their labor, for efforts made in Ihis regard was notrnsalis/acIO/y. On lop o./this, in-school and out-ol-school supervision activities includingrnvisiling the apprentices and conducting tracer studies were far behind from the expectation.rnThere./are, it is recommended to act according to the rule and establish some kind ofrnregula/OJ)' body /0 /aci/iIQle and organize apprenliceship lraining by bringing allrnstakeholders to work together/or the succes~jit! implemenlalion of apprenticeship program