Definitely a good move. This is how workers in Switzerland are so competent. Each and every one was trained educationally for it, even your salesmen and ladies, produce guys, florists, etc. Only people in the few professions you need a university degree for go there. Everyone else picks a profession direction and goes to an internship after high school.
Typically they go to school in the morning for gen ed subjects that affect that career, and specific industry courses once they know those, and in the afternoon they will work for an employer for a small stipend. The employer in turn has promised the state they will be training this intern and preparing them to pass industry specific exams. At that point each new trainee is a diplomaed florist or whatever.
My wife made a good living as an optician which is not a profession that immediately springs to mind as a career. I was a career counselor to veterans and welfare recipients.