Finnish qualifications and main fields of study
Many and varied qualification opportunities are one facet of educational quality. Adults' competence-based examinations are excellent measure of learning. Students in Adult Education Centres can gain:
- basic vocational qualifications
- vocational qualifications
- specialist vocational qualifications
There are a number of curriculum areas and you can study e.g. the following fields:
- Export and international activities
- Business development and entrepreneurship training
- Information technology and data communication
- Technology and transport
- Service sector
The source of expertise in the development projects and international network
The experience of the experts in adult vocational training has been made good use in several development schemes and projects initiated by the Finnish authorities:
Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Education, National Board of Education.
The areas of development have been:
- design of national core curricula,
- design of teaching material,
- new vocational qualification system for adults,
- efficiency assessment of vocational training,
- creation of purchase procedures of employment training etc.
AIKE International Oy co-ordinates international projects in vocational adult education and links Adult Education Centres and organizations with the international network.
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