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ERIC Number: EJ452038
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
The German Dual System: Educational Utopia?
Pritchard, Rosalind M. O.
Comparative Education, v28 n2 p131-43 1992
Describes Germany's "dual system," in which trainees serve two-year apprenticeships with businesses while studying vocational and general subjects in school. Discusses the growing number of apprentices with full academic school-leaving certificates, conflicts between schools and businesses, and debate over the relative merits of vocational and general education. (SV)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, School Business Relationship, Secondary Education, Trade and Industrial Education, Vocational Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Germany