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

(Art. 17 para. 2 and 18 para. 2 VPETA)

¹ Com­pared to three-year and four-year VET pro­grammes, two-year VET pro­grammes provide learners with spe­cif­ic vo­ca­tion­al qual­i­fic­a­tions that are easi­er to ac­quire. They take ac­count of the in­di­vidu­al cap­ab­il­it­ies of learners by of­fer­ing them a par­tic­u­larly broad range of courses and a per­son­al­ised teach­ing ap­proach.

² VET or­din­ances for two-year VET pro­grammes in­clude pro­vi­sions en­abling learners to sub­sequently en­rol in the three-year or four-year VET pro­gramme.

³ Two-year VET pro­grammes may be ex­ten­ded or shortened by no more than one year.

⁴ If a learner runs the risk of not com­plet­ing a VET pro­gramme, the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall, after listen­ing to the learner and the VET school, de­cide wheth­er com­pet­ent in­di­vidu­al tu­tor­ing should be provided to the learner in ques­tion.

⁵ Com­pet­ent in­di­vidu­al tu­tor­ing not only in­cludes classroom in­struc­tion but all rel­ev­ant areas of train­ing that the learner re­quires.