Federal Act
on Vocational and Professional Education and Training
(Vocational and Professional Education and Training Act, VPETA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 13 December 2002 (Status as of 1 August 2021)


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Art. 29 Professional education institutions

1 Any­one wish­ing to at­tend a fed­er­ally re­cog­nised study pro­gramme at a pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­fic­a­tion in­sti­tu­tion must have suf­fi­cient pro­fes­sion­al ex­per­i­ence, un­less such pro­fes­sion­al ex­per­i­ence is in­cluded in the course of study.

2 The full-time study pro­gramme shall last a min­im­um of two years, in­clud­ing train­ee­ships at host com­pan­ies. The part-time study pro­gramme shall last a min­im­um of three years.

3 The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, Edu­ca­tion and Re­search (EAER)11 shall work with pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions to es­tab­lish the min­im­um re­quire­ments for fed­er­al re­cog­ni­tion of study pro­grammes and con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing at pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions. They shall es­tab­lish the ad­mis­sion re­quire­ments, course con­tent, qual­i­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ures, qual­i­fic­a­tions and titles.

4 The Can­tons may of­fer their own courses of study.

5 The Can­tons shall be re­spons­ible for over­all su­per­vi­sion of pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions that of­fer fed­er­ally re­cog­nised study pro­grammes.

11 Term in ac­cord­ance with No I 8 of the O of 15 June 2012 (Re­or­gan­isa­tion of the De­part­ments), in force since 1 Jan. 2013 (AS 2012 3655). This amend­ment has been made throughout the text.

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