Key features
Qualification: Ammatillinen perustutkinto/ Yrkesinriktad Grundexamen
Qualification in English: Vocational Upper Secondary Qualification
Educational level: –
NQF level: 4
EQF level: 4
Normal length/ workload: 180 competence points
Work-based learning: Work-based learning is integrated into vocational education and training. It is planned as part of the student’s personal competence development plan. The plan identifies and recognises the student’s prior learning and outlines what kind of competences the student needs and how they can be acquired in different learning environments.
Access requirement: Primary and lower secondary education
Access to further studies: A vocational qualification gives general eligibility for university of applied science and university studies.
Programmes and mode of education
Vocational education and training (VET) is designed both for young people without upper secondary qualifications and for adults already in work life. VET provides students with strong vocational competence. Another key principle is continuous competence development.
VET is organised mainly in institutions (on-the-job learning included) or as apprenticeship training.
The vocational qualifications are composed of units. Vocational upper secondary qualifications consist of vocational and common units. Vocational units are either compulsory or optional. Competence requirements are the same in all learning environments, including in workplaces. As long as the individual’s competences meet the national qualification requirements, the vocational skills can be acquired in different learning environments, by various means and at different times. Students demonstrate their knowledge and skills in competence demonstrations at practical work. A teacher and a representative from working life assess a student’s performance together.
A holder of a vocational upper secondary qualification has broad-based basic vocational skills. As well as allowing work in different tasks within the field, it also confers more specialised competence and the vocational skills required in work life in at least one section of the field.
Qualification requirements for the different vocational qualifications are available at the eRequirements website:
https://eperusteet.opintopolku.fi/#/en/selaus/ammatillinen
The current study programmes leading to vocational upper secondary qualification can be found at the Studyinfo website:
https://opintopolku.fi/konfo/en/haku?koulutustyyppi=koulutustyyppi_26&order=desc&size=20&sort=score
Diploma/Certificate provided:
Tutkintotodistus / Examensbevis / Certificate
Certificate Supplement:
Certificate supplements are available for individual qualifications in three languages (fi, sv, en) at the eRequirements website: https://eperusteet.opintopolku.fi/#/en/selaus/ammatillinen
VET institutions have the obligation to provide the supplement on request.