Ordinance
on Vocational and Professional Education and Training
(Vocational and Professional Education and Training Ordinance, VPETO)

(Art. 33 and 34 para. 1 VPETA)

¹ Qual­i­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ures must:

a.

be aligned with qual­i­fic­a­tion tar­gets es­tab­lished in the rel­ev­ant VET or­din­ances;

b.

as­sess verbal, writ­ten and prac­tic­al as­pects that are judged ac­cord­ing to the spe­cif­ic fea­tures of the cor­res­pond­ing qual­i­fic­a­tion field and take ac­count of school edu­ca­tion and prac­tic­al ex­per­i­ence;

c.

use com­pet­ence as­sess­ment ap­proaches that are ap­pro­pri­ate and suited to the tar­get group.

² A fi­nal in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary ex­am­in­a­tion or equi­val­ent qual­i­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ure shall be re­quired if the com­pet­ence as­sess­ment is be­ing per­formed for the pur­pose of is­su­ing a qual­i­fic­a­tion.