Trumpy,
in Sweden you have two basic choices when you go to high school: Either you choose one of the programmes that will only prepare you for higher education. This is chosen by those who want to become teachers, accountants, engineers. Or, you choose some of the more practical, less demanding, programmes where you can become an auto mechanic, construction worker, chef, electrician and so on. It doesn't give you a license as an electrican, you still need a few years as apprentice after that. It used to be that these "practical" programmes were two years as oppsed to the three years of the theoretical, but that is no longer the case.
