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- Riding the Tube
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Marcus Brask Nielsen (right) and two friends on the London Underground
- This many vocational students travel
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Some 1,500 students travel to Europe for internships or to attend schools with support from Erasmus+ each year, manly students from the basic course.
Another 1,300 - 1,400 students do internships as part of their main course, with economic support from the PIU programme (Internships Abroad).
Source: The Ministry of Higher Education and Science
- Danish vocational educations
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Vocational educations have a practical focus, and generally last for four years. They are divided into a basic course, which normally takes place in the vocational school, and a main course which primarily consists of practical training in a company.
Students can start directly after elementary school or after other education or work.
There are more than 100 vocational training courses, e.g. brick layer, social and health assistant, electrician, hair dresser, mechanic and gardener. A vocational education provides you access to jobs as a skilled worker.
The education’s content, structure and pedagogy is developed in cooperation between the social partners, businesses and the vocational schools. This is to make sure the courses are targeted at the needs of the skilled labour market, so that the students have the skills that are needed in the trade they will be working in at the end of their education.
Source: Styrelsen for IT og Læring, www.stil.dk
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