Almost everyone enters either university or apprenticeship after compulsory school and those with special problems or needs can re-enter the system through a number of alternative paths or programs with the majority going into apprenticeships. Supervision for apprentices is provided by masters from training company or senior workers. Denmark has 85 basic vocational education programs. Germany has approximately 378 trades in which apprenticeships are provided. In Germany , there is no national curriculum.
Curriculum vary by state or locality.
An apprentice must have strong basic language skills, literacy, and math skills. Typically students do not need remediation. In Greece , difference between vocational technical education is in subject area, not level. Vocational education means business, paramedical craft fields, agri., etc. In Japan , curriculum includes instruction in the adaptation to changing social realities and instruction in creative solution to difficulties.