Europe Has A Different Strategy For Postsecondary Career and Technical Education

Learning for Jobs, Not “College for All”: How European Countries Think about Preparing Young People for Productive Citizenship
by Nancy Hoffman, Jobs For The Future , Boston, MA. 
Most countries that have low youth unemployment and transition young people quickly and successfully into a wide range of careers that meet labor market needs and have decent salaries do not have “college for all” policies as in the USA. Instead, they head most young people into career and technical education with the option of moving into postsecondary professional education. They do so using a mix of work and schooling in a liberal arts context.