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Published: 14 December 2011

Educational institutions' adult education not leading to a qualification had 2.2 million participants in 2010

According to data collected by Statistics Finland from educational institutions, a total of 5.7 million hours of teaching were given in adult education not leading to a qualification, which is 6 per cent more than in the year before. The number of participants (gross number of students) was two per cent less than in the previous year, totalled 2.2 million.

Educational institutions adult education not leading to a qualification by type of education in 2010

Type of education	Participants (gross)	Women %	Teaching hours
Further vocational education, not apprenticeship training	112 809	42	512 003
Further vocational education, apprenticeship training	4 790	68	39 774
Employment training for adults	66 789	44	1 298 045
Courses ordered by the employer	224 574	46	386 603
Education organised as liberal adult education	1 648 969	72	2 886 030
Open polytechnic teaching	15 800	67	262 435
Open university teaching 1)	44 660	77	72 182
Other education	93 528	54	283 909
Total	2 211 919	67	5 740 981

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 1.6 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.

In 2011, students in basic level education outside comprehensive school in upper secondary general schools, folk high schools and vocational institutes numbered 2,400, of whom 1,400 were studying the full comprehensive school curriculum and 900 attended additional education (10th grade).

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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

Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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Updated 14.12.2011