students can pursue vet in upper secondary and in polytechnics at the tertiary level of education initial vocational training programmes take three years to complete including at least half a year of onthejob learning in workplaces upon completion the qualification provides formal eligibility for tertiary education graduation rates in prevocationalvocational programmes are high compared to the oecd average of in but only of students in these programmes graduated before the age of compared to an average of in oecd countries those with tertiary qualifications have high rates of employment