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For young people with a high level of performance at school, there are additional optional courses or support courses available for up to half a day a week at vocational schools if the performance level of the learner at school and in the company otherwise corresponds with expectations (cf. Chapter 5.2, p. 222). The courses comprise creative or sport programmes but supplementary specialist knowledge and subject-specific skills and, in particular, foreign language skills are also taught. The offer varies considerably from canton to canton though.

Since the 1970s, there have also been the vocational upper-secondary schools, which teach more general education. The idea of the founders (Sommerhalder, 1989), according to which many young people wish to acquire a broader general education, applied only to a limited extent at first, however. This school type did not begin to grow until the start of the 1990s when the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate was created and identified as a requirement for entry into the universities of applied sciences, which were newly established at the time.