The document discusses the requirements and structure for obtaining a vocational qualification in business and administration from the Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities' Järvenpää Training Center. It provides details on the national core curriculum established by the Finnish National Board of Education, including three study program specializations. The training center's own curriculum offers two study programs with modules in areas like customer service, accounting, and office administration. Students can receive individualized learning paths and have their prior experience recognized. Upon completion, students are awarded qualification and skills demonstration certificates documenting their achieved modules and skills.

1. Vocational Qualification in Business
and Administration
The Finnish Association of People with
Physical Disabilities
Järvenpää Training Center
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2. 22.11.2012
Requirements for Vocational Qualifications
• the regulation for the requirements for vocational
qualifications in business and adminstration was
issued in 2009 by the Finnish National Board of
Education  ”national core curriculum”
• in curriculum-based education and training the
education provider must draw up and approve a
curriculum in compliance with the terms stipulated
in the qualification requirements
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3. 22.11.2012
”National Core Curriculum in Business
and Administration”
Three different study programmes:
1. Specialisation in Customer
Services and Sales
2. Specialisation in Accounting
and Office Services
3. Specialisation in Information
and Library Services
( not available in our school)
The Objectives:
• a wide range of professional skills
• key competences for lifelong learning:
1. Learning and problem solving
2. Interaction and cooperation
3. Vocational ethics
4. Health, safety and ability to function
5. Initiative and entrepreneurship
6. Sustainable development
7. Aesthetics
8. Communication and media skills
9. Mathematics and natural sciences
10.Technology and information technology
11.Active citizenship and different cultures
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eligibility for further studies
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The structure of the vocational
qualification in busines and adminstration:
• Core subject modules
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mathematics, mother tongue, second national language, foreign
languages, physical and health education, arts and culture, social studies,
physics and chemistry  compulsory modules 16 crs
optional modules 4 crs
• Vocational modules
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20 crs
90 crs
compulsory module : Customer Service 20 crs
study programme modules: 10 - 20 crs / module
locally offered modules: 5 -10 crs
• Free-choice modules
10 crs
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5. 22.11.2012
Our Curriculum
• Two study programmes:
1. Specialisation in Customer Services and Sales
2. Specialisation in Accounting and Office Services
• two paths: a) accounting services b) office services
• Offered modules:
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Customer service 20 crs  compulsory module for all
Services and sales in retail trade 20 crs
Visual display merchandising 10 crs
Accounting and finance services 20 crs  compulsory module for study prog 2.
Bookkeeping 20 crs
Office administration 20 crs
Planning and implementation of marketing communication activities 10 crs
Profitability planning 10 crs
Closing entries and corporate taxation 10 crs
Use of office software 10 crs
Entrepreneurship 10 crs  ”compulsory” module for all in our curriculum
Sustainable development in business practices 10 crs (locally offered module)
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6. 22.11.2012
Our Curriculum
• Special features:
• recognition and validation of student´s prior learning
• extended ”on-the-job-learning” –periods 40 crs or more
according to student´s individual education plan (IEP)
• individual learning paths
• diversified methods for assesment of learning and
competence:
 same principles for special needs students
 possibility to adjust the education and training if a
student does not reach the satisfactory 1 level
objectives (levels 1 – 3)
 if the skills requirements or objectives have been
adjusted an entry must be made in the certificate
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Vocational Qualification in Business and
Administration: Certificates
• Qualification certificate includes:
1. Vocational upper secondary certificate:
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name of qualification / study programme
modules completed
name and scope of the Final Project
scope of on-the-job-learning
2. Skills demonstration certificate:
• skills demonstration completed by module
• short desciption of skills demonstration (what/where/scope)
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8. Thank you!
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