Art. 2 Research in the area of vocational and professional education and training (VPET)
(Art. 4 VPETA) 1 The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)2 shall encourage Swiss VPET research until human resource and organisational capacities reach a sustainable and internationally recognised scientific level. 2 Ten years after commencement of this Ordinance, the Confederation shall decide whether VPET research can be considered a branch of general education research and therefore included in existing national research funding structures. 3 Federally funded VPET research shall be aligned with prevailing conditions applicable to general education research, the education statistics programme and the economic and business world. 2 The name of this administrative unit was amended in application of Art. 16 para. 3 of the Publications Ordinance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS 20044937) on 1 Jan. 2013. The amendment has been made throughout the text. |