A large number of young adults cannot find an apprenticeship position after graduating from school. In these cases the so-called transition system becomes effective: it offers school types and measures for young adults who leave general educational schools and cannot find a training vacancy immediately. The aim of this system is to make the transition into a traditional trainee employment relationship easier for the young adults. However, Christian Schmidt critically views both the pedagogic aim as well as the characterisation as system. The publication extensively analyses the historico-systematical development, the structures as well as the migratory movements within the transition system. He comes to the conclusion that the crisis of the transition system is symptomatic for the crisis of the professional educational system as a whole.weiterlesen