This handbook includes quality areas and criteria for Finnish VET. The purpose of the handbook is to be practical in nature and to help peers to assess the educational organisation’s operations and help the organisation to develop its own activities. Each quality area is structured in such a way that it contains the different steps of the EQAVET quality cycle and can also be taken separately as a peer review focus area.
Laws, regulations and other instructions, along with the operational environment, define the framework within which education providers are tasked to set their goals and to outline their operations. The latest legislation in Finland has increased the decision-making authority of education providers, which has highlighted the significance of the operative outlines on their level.
Quality areas for Finnish VET:
- Quality Area 1: The organisation and planning of education and qualifications
- Quality Area 2: Student applications and admissions
- Quality Area 3: Developing, monitoring and updating a personal competence development plan
- Quality Area 4: Acquisition of competence
- Quality Area 5: Learning environments
- Quality Area 6: Learning at work (including apprenticeships and training agreements)
- Quality Area 7: Demonstration, assessment and verification of competence
- Quality Area 8: The performance and effectiveness of qualifications and training
- Quality Area 9: Strategic planning
- Quality Area 10: Leadership
- Quality Area 11: The management of customers, partnerships and stakeholder cooperation
- Quality Area 12: The management and planning of human resources
- Quality Area 13: Student welfare, interaction and involvement
- Quality Area 14: Information management
- Quality Area 15: Quality management