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SVETII meeting during the 2009 feasibility mission, Bangalore

One of the main objectives of any educational system is to equip young people with the competences and skills that firms demand in the labour market. In this chapter, we describe the Swiss education system and its approach to integrating young people into the labour market, and explore in particular its vocational education and training (VET) system. We start out by providing some facts and figures about the Swiss education system and the Swiss economy. We then move on to describing the Swiss education system, which consists of both general education and vocational education programmes. At the same time, we touch on the transition options available and the permeability of the system. We also highlight the VET system’s legal aspects and explain its governance. These aspects form the basis of the system. Furthermore, we explain Switzerland’s curriculum value chain process, since the quality of education programmes is highly dependent on the underlying educational curricula. It is important to know how these curricula are developed, as they shed light on important aspects of the system’s high efficiency. In the penultimate section of this chapter, we discuss the financing of the VET system and round off the chapter with possible approaches for improving the Indian VET system from a Swiss perspective.