A search of recent research on group training apprenticeships and traineeships in Australia found that group training companies (GTCs) are making a strong contribution to Australia's apprentice and trainee system. Key findings include the following: (1) group training apprentice and trainee numbers doubled over the period of 1995-2000; (2) over the same period, GTCs increased their market share by 1 percent, a considerable achievement in that this occurred during a period of rapid growth in the sector as a whole; (3) host employers serviced by GTCs are overwhelmingly (90 percent) small- or medium-sized businesses; (4) overall, group training apprentices and trainees are more concentrated in the traditional trades than across all areas; (5) GTCs have the largest proportion of teenage apprentices and trainees of all major employer types and account for almost half of school-based apprenticeships; (6) completions in GTCs have grown at a higher rate than among all apprentices and trainees overall; and (7) job outcomes from group training apprenticeships and traineeships are high and comparable with job outcomes from apprenticeships and traineeships in general. The study concludes that group training continues to be subject to emerging pressures as the apprentice and trainee system changes and expands, including the need to diversify to new and emerging occupations, the need to maintain a focus on small- and medium-sized firms, and the need to continue to provide opportunities to different groups in the community. (KC)