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Meister High Schools

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Youth unemployment rate

6.4%

College graduates overeducated for jobs

42%

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About Meister Schools

Established in 2010, the network of Meister Schools is specifically designed to prepare youths to work in high-skilled manufacturing jobs and other fields. They also seek to encourage a higher sense of status for such positions.

By the numbers

Trainee education level

Keys to operations

  • Near-guarantee of employment to graduates
  • Industry-supported curriculum design, with focus on developing skills required by various trades
  • Internships expose students to the workplace
  • Increased status of vocational education
  • Strong support from the national government
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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000168781430 Sandeep Deshmukh

    There is a huge potential to replicate the model in India with more than one million schools. A few non profits have done systematic work in integrating vocational curriculum at the high school level, but the program needs patronage by government and industries to achieve a scale.