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Appendix table 1. Changes from the previous year made to educational institutions of the school system by type of educational institution in 2010

Type of educational institution	Number	Total change	New	Closed down	Merged	Students 1)
11 Comprehensive schools	2 785	-104	8	-88	-24	524 200
12 Comprehensive school level special education schools	129	-9	2	-4	-7	6 800
15 Upper secondary general schools	395	-3	1	-	-4	120 100
19 Comprehensive and upper secondary general level schools	38	-	-	-	-	25 000
21 Vocational institutes	132	-5	1	-	-6	182 800
22 Special needs vocational institutes	6	-	-	-	-	5 300
23 Specialised vocational institutes	34	-1	-	-	-1	22 900
24 Vocational adult education centres	25	-2	2	-1	-3	43 100
28 Fire, police and security service institutes	1	-	-	-	-	300
29 Military vocational institutes	14	-	-	-	-	..
41 Polytechnics	27	-1	-	-	-1	148 000
42 Universities	16	-4	3	-	-7	168 700
43 Military academies	1	-	-	-	-	700
61 Music schools and colleges	88	-1	-	-	-1	66 600
62 Sports institutes	14	-	-	-	-	1 700
63 Folk high schools	82	-1	-	-1	-	16 400
64 Adult education centres	199	-6	-	-	-6	540 500
65 Study circle centres	10	-1	-	-	-1	47 300
66 Summer universities	20	-	-	-	-	36 700
99 Other educational institutions	7	-	-	-	-	500
Total	4 023	-138	17	-94	-61	1 957 600

1) The data on the number of students are mainly as on 20 September 2010 and include the number of all students in educational institutions belonging to the type of educational institution independent of the level of education.

Source: Education Statistics 2010. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Elina Huusko (09) 1734 3571, koulutustilastot@stat.fi

Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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Updated 17.2.2011