The Swiss vocational and university education system is based on a series of gates and passages. If you don't have "what it takes" to continue on your current t

The Swiss vocational and university education system is based on a series of gates and passages. If you don't have "what it takes" to continue on your current trajectory, you are directed to another type of education. But "what it takes" is time-dependent. It often happens that someone does not have the grades to stay in school working towards a bachelor's because they don't yet have the maturity to see and make the connection between studying hard and achieving their goals. So they do a few years of vocational school and then have different opportunities to come back to university studies if that's where they are ready to be. But that's the perfect scenario: there are abuses as well, where bosses use apprentices for crap work with little educational benefits to the apprentice.