Learning from the best: Designing an effective, high-quality CTE system.(career and technical education)

Today, there are 100 courses being offered in 11 sectors, including business services and real estate, chemicals and biomedical, creative media, electronics, engineering, information technology, healthcare, hotels and restaurants, tourism, transport and logistics, and wholesale and retail.5'*' Training was upgraded to the highest industry standards; 21st-century skills and technologies were integrated into innovative curriculum that provides an authentic learning environment to ensure that Singaporean workers would receive the highest-quality training. [...]in both countries more than 87 percent of students receive a job upon completion of a basic VET certificate, and each system can boast of having one of the lowest youth unemployment rates in the world.'2-13 In Switzerland, there are many role models, including heads of banks and large multinational companies, who have degrees earned through the VET pathway.