the slovenian education system has a combined school and workbased apprenticeship programmes but only of upper secondary education pupils participate in such programmes although around of them are enrolled in vocationallyoriented programmes the reform of vet allowed of the curriculum to be flexible based on local needs and conditions the authorities should introduce sufficient incentives to ensure greater involvement in the determination of curriculum and workbased study programmes international evidence suggests that the employment performance of vocational upper secondary education graduates tends to be correspondingly favourable where participation in apprenticeship programmes is particularly high