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Preparatory vocational education for a skills examination
Initial, further and specialist vocational qualifications can be obtained through skills examinations irrespective of the way vocational skills have been acquired. As a rule the qualifications are attained in connection with preparatory education for a skills examination. The providers of the education are obliged to organise the skills examinations as part of the preparatory education.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- 1 January 1995 - 31 December 2020
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Jaa