Solga and Menze (2013, 8) claimed that due to the market mechanism in the apprenticeship, unequal chances from the general school system are continued in the vocational system.
Regarding this, it shall be verified empirically whether the students entering engineering studies reach the levels fixed in the curricula of the general school system.
This relationship also applies when economic conditions improve: Young adults lack incentives to stay in the general school system and are more likely to enter the labour market (warehouse hypothesis; e.g., Walters 1984; Grubb and Lazerson 1982).
However, due to differences between today's general school system and former systems, the average time of received school education in years is not really comparable between younger and older participants.
Here, children who have never been to school before, or who have dropped out early, get the space and support they need to be integrated back into the general school system at a level that is appropriate to each child's age.
The design of the study is original as it used data collected from general school systems to make comparisons between LTID groups possible.
The newly established State Committee of Public Education incorporated the three formerly independent administration systems for general schooling, vocational training, and higher education.
Students are now being taught with the national curriculum so that when peace returns, they children can be reintegrated into the general state-run school system.
Because of the creation of an opportunity to acquire general school certificates within the VET system, more than 40% of youths earn a university entrance degree (UED), and an additional 15% earn a degree for entrance to a UAS Authoring Groupp Educational Reporting 2016).
According to the German school system, it was possible to choose between special school/secondary general school certificate (9 years) "Hauptschulabschluss," secondary modern school certificate (10 years) "Realschulabschluss," or general qualification for university entrance/hiqh school diploma "Abitur".
