| | Evolution of the numbers of apprentices and students at institution of higher education, Year 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the occasion of the International Literacy Day on 8 September, just under 342,600 juveniles completed school education qualifying for enrolment at institutions of higher education (Abitur) in 2001, that were 34,800 more than in 1995. |
 | | In 2001, 86,900 school-leavers with Abitur took up vocational training within the dual vocational training system, that were 25% of that year's school-leavers with Abitur. |
 | | Almost every third school-leaver with Abitur takes up studies at a German institution of higher education within the year in which he/she has passed the Abitur examination. |
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