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Comparing the vocational education and training systems of different countries is no easy task. Vocational education and training systems are embedded in a cultural, financial, political and historical context. In the case of India, we also have to remember that its education system was shaped by the British colonial power. Although much has changed since India’s independence on 15 August 1947, various features of the current education system still resemble those of the Anglo-Saxon education system.

Ursula Renold’s and Vipul Agarwal’s description of India’s vocational education and training system helps us to understand how the VET system is structured and embedded in the whole education system. It also outlines the challenges India faces with respect to integrating its young people into the labour market.

Switzerland’s education system, and especially its vocational and professional education and training (VPET), is renowned worldwide for its successful outcomes. Ursula Renold and Maria Esther Egg provide a comprehensive overview of the Swiss VPET system. Special emphasis is laid on the role of the VPET system within Switzerland’s education framework, VPET’s governance aspects and the curriculum value chain. The authors also emphasise the importance of permeability and transition mechanisms between the different education levels, and they provide several key facts and figures.

Descriptions of the two education and training systems follow a largely similar pattern. The structure of the education system stands in the centre, made up of general framework conditions like governance, financing, coordination between subsystem actors, and the curriculum value chain describing all educational processes.