Additionally the apprenticeship way was open to 'lower' educational tiers. Nowadays you often need a good high school education for jobs that some years back we

Additionally the apprenticeship way was open to 'lower' educational tiers. Nowadays you often need a good high school education for jobs that some years back were clearly open to pupils with a so called 'Realschulabschluss'. I would also add that we have the highly theoretical universities and the Universities of Applied Sciences. Later ones are more practically oriented. Having studied at a "regular" university and watched people study at an Applied Sciences University, I believe that the later is better grounded in reality.