Ammatillisen koulutuksen rahoituksen perusperiaatteet
Keywords:
ammatillinen koulutus, rahoituksen kehittäminen, valtionosuusrahoitus, Vocational education, development of funding, government subsidy based fundingAbstract
Vocational education funding is subject to the general government subsidy principles. Apart from the government subsidy, the funding includes the portion payable by the municipalities. The education and training providers decide on the use of the funding they receive. The actual costs of the education provider do not affect the funding but the volume of its activities has an impact on it. The level of the funding follows the average development of the costs and is satisfactory on the whole. However, it varies between the education forms and providers. The current funding system lags behind the development in the field and does not support the goals of the education and training policy in the best possible way. The performance criterion for funding should be the number of completed credits rather than the number of students on the statistical data registration day used currently. The number of completed qualifications and partial qualifications should also be taken into account in funding. This would prevent unnecessary training and dropouts. The effect of the special needs of the students and different fields of education on the cost level should be taken into consideration also in the future, but different ways of organising education should be considered as well. The performancebased funding of vocational upper secondary education should continue and the funding of vocational adult education should be developed further.
