By Ulla Højmark Jensen, associate professor in the Guidance Research Unit, DPU The drop-out rate from secondary education programmes among ethnic minority youth is twice that of Danish youth. The withdrawal rate is greatest in the vocational training programmes, where 60 percent of the ethnic minority youth drop out from some programmes. Some of the significant causes relate to problems finding apprenticeships and the high technical level in the programmes. But what can the counsellors and educational institutions do to reduce the withdrawal rate from the perspective of adaptation and change?