Published: 13 December 2011
Immediate continuation of studies was still more difficult in 2010 than in the year before for both completers of the 9th grade of comprehensive school and passers of the matriculation examination
According to Statistics Finland, immediate continuation of studies was still more difficult in 2010 than in the year before for both completers of the 9th grade of comprehensive school and passers of the matriculation examination. Nine per cent of completers of the comprehensive school and 60 per cent of new passers of the matriculation examination failed to get a place for further studies. The share of those left outside further studies leading to a qualification or degree grew by around one-half of a percentage point from the previous year.
Direct transition to further studies of completers of the 9th grade of comprehensive school 2005-2010, %
Completers of the 9th grade of comprehensive school numbered around 64,000, unchanged from one year earlier. One-half of them (58 per cent of women and 43 per cent of men) went on to study in upper secondary general school. Forty-one per cent (33 per cent of women and 49 per cent of men) went on to attend upper secondary level vocational education. A total of 8.9 per cent did not continue any studies leading to a qualification or degree. Their share grew by nearly one-half of a percentage point from the previous year. Nearly all applied for further studies, as barely two per cent did not do so.
The share of completers of the comprehensive school who continued to upper secondary general education was higher than the average for the whole country in the regions of Uusimaa and Pirkanmaa. The number who continued to vocational education was highest in the region of Satakunta and lowest in Uusimaa. The number of young people who did not continue to any studies leading to a qualification or degree after the comprehensive school was highest in the region of Päijät-Häme.
New passers of the matriculation examination numbered 32,700, or about as many as in the year before. Of the newly matriculated students 18 per cent entered university education and 17 per cent polytechnic education in autumn of the same year. The share of those who continued to university or polytechnic education decreased by one-half of a percentage point from the year before. Four per cent entered upper secondary vocational education. Over one-half, or 60 per cent, of the passers of the matriculation examination in 2010 did not continue studying in their year of graduation. The share of those left outside further studies has exceeded one-half in recent years, and now grew again by nearly one percentage point from the previous year. Seventy-seven per cent of the new passers of the matriculation examination applied for further studies. The share of applicants was a couple of percentage points higher than in the previous year.
Entry to university education was easiest for students from the regions of Ostrobothnia and North Karelia. The largest numbers of students in Ostrobothnia and Central Ostrobothnia continued to polytechnic education. Those having passed the matriculation examination in Uusimaa and Pirkanmaa remained most frequently outside further studies.
Source: Education 2011. Statistics Finland
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Updated 13.12.2011
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Entrance to education [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-4527. 2010. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 23.4.2024].
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