Most other types of training are subject to at least a partial fee, but there are also free courses and courses at free-market prices. Adult education may also include studies on civic skills, social studies or the student's special interests. Adults may also complete basic (comprehensive school) or upper secondary school, or take part in the matriculation examination, in special upper secondary schools for adults or in courses for adults at an ordinary upper secondary school. Upper secondary schools for adults also provide education for foreign students. Most adult education students work. The instruction mostly takes place in the evening and is course-based. Some courses are distance based. Many people study individual subjects, mainly languages, as so-called subject students.
A national core curriculum for adult education has been devised. There is also instruction geared to foreign students in general upper secondary schools. Adult re-employment training is an important form of adult education. Its aim is to improve the supply of skilled labor and make it easier for the unemployed to re-enter the labor market. The long-term unemployed are a special group in re-employment training, which increased particularly rapidly during the 1990s, when the worldwide recession reached Finland , causing a rise in unemployment. The Ministry of Labour is responsible for re-employment training, procuring courses and training from different educational institutions for the unemployed or for people under threat of unemployment. Re-employment training is free of charge for students.
Office for Information and Education
http://www.unesco.org/education/aladin/members/37.htm
European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA)
http://www.eaea.org/
Ammatillisten Aikuiskoulutuskeskusten Liitto
(Association of Vocational Adult Education Centres)
http://www.eaea.org/index.php?k=7197&member=00220
Iltakoulujen liitto
(Association of Secondary Evening Schools)
http://www.eaea.org/index.php?k=7197&member=00017
Kansanvalistusseura
(KVS Foundation)
http://www.eaea.org/index.php?k=7197&member=00223
Vapaan Sivistystyön Yhteisjärjestö
(Finnish Adult Education Association)
http://www.eaea.org/index.php?k=7197&member=00129
Västra Nylands folkhögskola Folkakademin
(The Further Education College of Västra Nyland)
http://www.eaea.org/index.php?k=7197&member=00033
See also our article on Language
courses.
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