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Information about VET in Finland

Brochures

Vocational Qualifications in Finland 2019
This brochure gives an overview of Vocational Qualifications in Finland. The three biggest VET sectors are technology, communications and transport; social sciences, business and administration, and social services, health and sports.

Finnish VET in Fact and Figures
This brochure gives an overview of Finnish Vocational upper secondary education.

Internationalisation of VET - Finland
In this brochure - Internationalisation of VET - you can find some statistical data on mobility and information on development of internationalisation of VET in Finland.

Finnish VET in a nutshell
Finnish vocational education and training is competence-based and customer-oriented. The purpose of VET is to increase and maintain the vocational skills of the population, develop commerce and industry and respond to its competence needs.

Reports and publications

Key figures on vocational education and training in Finland
This report gives and overview of Finnish VET and provides information on the structure and contents of vocational education and training: on student and teaching staff numbers: on the course of VET studies; and on transition from VET to further education and work.  This report describes the Finnish VET system in the light of basic statistical data including comparisons at a general level with OECD countries and the situation in the other Nordic countries and Estonia.

Facts Express 4 C/2019: Finnish vocational education and training going global
In this publication, we’ll present non-EU cooperation in VET and VET mobility outside the EU as well asits development in numbers. In addition, we’ll look at how global activities are currently funded, what objectives they have and their achievements.

Cedefop's publications

Vocational education and training in Finland
This short description contributes to better understanding of vocational education and training (VET) in Finland by providing insight into its main features and highlighting system developments and current challenges.

Spotlight on VET Finland
Finnish vocational education and training (VET) is competence-based and learner-oriented. Cedefop's brief guide provides all the information you need on Finland's VET system in a concise manner.

Vocational education and training (VET) in Finland (video)