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Published: 10 December 2010

Educational institutions' adult education not leading to a qualification had 2.3 million participants in 2009

According to data collected by Statistics Finland from educational institutions, a total of 5.4 million hours of teaching were given in adult education not leading to a qualification, which is 5 per cent less than in the year before. The number of participants (gross number of students) was one per cent less than in the previous year, totalled 2.3 million.

Educational institutions adult education not leading to a qualification by type of education in 2009

Type of education	Participants (gross)	Women %	Teaching hours
Further vocational education, not apprenticeship training	130 300	38	416 215
Further vocational education, apprenticeship training	4 237	58	25 972
Employment training for adults	57 731	44	1 098 089
Courses ordered by the employer	246 814	46	385 688
Education organised as liberal adult education	1 665 398	72	2 901 097
Open polytechnic teaching	16 421	70	211 790
Open university teaching 1)	49 963	77	78 517
Other education	83 292	51	295 662
Total	2 254 156	66	5 413 030

1) Excl. data on open university teaching implemented by the universities themselves.

The highest number of participants attended education organised as liberal adult education, where the gross number of students was 1.7 million and their net number was one million. The number of teaching hours was also highest in liberal adult education, at 2.9 million hours. The highest share (28 per cent) of all the teaching hours given in adult education not leading to a qualification was given in the field of culture, especially in crafts and design.

Source: Education 2009. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Riitta Auvinen (09) 1734 3569, koulutustilastot@stat.fi

Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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Updated 10.12.2010