Swiss Vocational Education and Training
Switzerland’s Source of Richness

“This book wants to show the citizens and the teachers in a comprehensive way why we belong to the club of the richest countries and in spite of the fact that our export oriented economy, having high wages and prices is well positioned in the world market. All the leading factors of our wealth -the high productivity, the high population labour participation and the international competitiveness with its strong export power – are linked namely to our vocational training system. Our system aligned to practical professional education is the decisive historic success factor which defines the “Swissness”, the Swiss quality work and the high value creation.” from the foreword by Author Rudolf Strahm

The english publication by Worlddidac is available in print and PDF now.

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This 72 page publication is an excerpt of the book: Rudolf Strahm; Warum wir so reich sind, second edition 2010 by HEP Verlag. Miss Neelam Nagar translated, Joshi-Foundation supported and bj institute produced this edition.

To get printed copies please contact:
Worlddidac Switzerland

To get printed copies in India please contact:
bj institute Hyderabad.

On 6th October 2010 the Swiss Newspaper “Tages Anzeiger” published an article about the demand on IT professionals in Gemany and the need of high educated professionals in India. Foreign companies may come to India and invest to get benefit from the source of high educated IT professionals. On a visit in German industry minister Sharma expressed interest in support from Germany, implementing the dual VET system in India.

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Source: Tages Anzeiger

Swiss Vocational Education and Training
Switzerland’s Source of Richness

The handout of R. Strahm’s Lecture tour in march 2010 in India is available for download.

Download Brochure / 1.2 MB PDF

This publication is an excerpt of the book:
Warum wir so reich sind – Wirtschaftsbuch Schweiz
Second Edition 2010 / www.hep-verlag.ch

An english version of the book will be published soon by bj institute in collaboration with a publishing house.

Berner Zeitung published on 21st April a report about the international interest in the Swiss VET sytem.

Report online

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Vocational courses backbone of our education system

Interview with Rudolf Strahm about the successful Swiss VET System
Times of India, 24th March 2010

The Times of Ideas, all India coverage

Interview online

Interview download PDF

The well designed and illustrated 54 pages brochure decribes the Swiss dual system in vocational trainig and is now available as PDF. This publication contains a series of portraits of Swiss trades and points out the needed steps to adapt the Swiss dual System to Indian conditions. The implementation of the dual system is documented by a project in Rajasthan, initiated by the Rajendra & Ursula Joshi Charitable Foundation (JCF).  Economists, education specialists and progressive businesspeople are lending their expertise for an adaptation of the Swiss apprenticeship education project to India’s economic and demographic realities.

Rudolf Strahm convincingly shows why Switzerland members the club of the richest countries in the world and why their economy is so strong on the world market in spite of the high salaries and prices.

All main factors of our wealth- the high productivity, the high income ratio of the population and the international competitiveness with high export power – are strongly linked to Switzerland’s education system.

This practice-oriented professional education is the decisive historic success factor, which defines the “swissness”, the Swiss quality work and the high value added.