Esha Magazine January 2012.pdf
Esha Magazine January 2012.pdf
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REPORT<br />
The widening<br />
quality gap between<br />
Finnish vocational<br />
versus general<br />
education<br />
BY JUKKA O. MATTILA<br />
In Finland, vocational and general studies divorce at student age 16.<br />
Roughly 50 % continue the next three years at the upper secondary<br />
school, the other 50 % enter vocational institutions.<br />
Earlier, majority of the 16-year age group chose the upper secondary<br />
option, mainly due to the unpopular image of vocational studies. However,<br />
in recent years much money and effort have been invested in the face-lift<br />
of the vocational line with the result of general education seeing itself<br />
nowadays as an underdog.<br />
56 ESHA MAGAZINE JANUARY 2012
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