Federal professional certificate
The Federal Professional Certificate ( EBA ; French: Attestation fédérale de formation professionnelle , Italian: Certificato federale di formazione pratica ) is the final certificate of a two-year basic vocational training course that was successfully completed with an examination. The title is federally recognized.
With the Vocational Certificate was in the Swiss VET Anlehre replaced in many occupations.
The two-year basic education is aimed primarily at young people and adults with practical skills and leads to a full professional qualification. This is intended to give those who are weaker at school access to the world of work and to further training.
As a low-threshold training offer, it also enables learners with certain deficits to learn an apprenticeship in two years. The qualification procedure at the end of the training period provides information about the specific skills that were acquired during the training.
As with the three- or four-year vocational training, which leads to a federal certificate of proficiency, the learning process also takes place with the two-year basic training on the basis of practical work in a training company, courses in the vocational school and inter-company courses .
Funding opportunities
Learners have the right to personal advancement or support during basic vocational training.
The funding is primarily aimed at the learners, but the teacher can also call in support.
Expert individual support
If their educational success is in jeopardy, learners who have completed two years of basic vocational training are entitled to professional individual support (FiB).
The support includes all aspects relevant to education in the learner's environment, i.e. vocational school, company, inter-company courses but also personal.
The design is the responsibility of the cantons, which results in differences in design, scope and form.
renewal
The training can be extended or shortened by one year.
Support courses
Support courses can be attended on half a day per week.
Modularization
If the completion of the full certificate training is not possible (for the time being), only individual modules can be completed. This does not lead to a professional certificate, but the modules can be credited towards a later degree.
Examination facilitation
Learners with learning difficulties and disabilities receive exams easier on request.
Differences between apprenticeship and professional certificate
| Apprenticeship | Professional certificate |
|---|---|
| Individual training program | Education Ordinance |
| ABU in mixed classes | Occupational field-related classes (as with EFZ) |
| Introductory courses voluntary | Inter-company courses compulsory |
| Completion individually "after inspection" | Graduation regulated |
In summary, a professional certificate is an approximation of a regular training, which on the one hand restricts individual leeway and changes the demands, on the other hand, through standardization, offers comparability and thus new opportunities for graduates.
In particular, the restriction of the individual scope, i.e. fewer opportunities to adapt to the learner's abilities, is viewed as critical. Accompanying measures such as remedial and support courses as well as an extension of the training are still planned.
Since students with learning difficulties and learning disabilities often have problems with exam anxiety, the regulated final examination (qualification procedure) represents a major hurdle.
The biggest step forward is the permeability to the Federal Certificate of Proficiency (EFZ).
Transitional provisions
The transitional provisions for the individual professions (e.g. the possibility of subsequently applying for the EBA for a successfully completed apprenticeship) can be found in the respective professional regulations.
Apprenticeships are offered until the respective ordinance on anlehre has been replaced by a new ordinance for vocational training with a professional certificate. In most occupational fields, the offer of anlehren ended in 2012, in certain occupational fields, anlehren will be continued until 2015 at the latest.
Further training opportunity
Graduates with a federal professional certificate are in principle open to specialist courses from associations and the like. The way to higher vocational training, however, is closed.
Obtaining the federal certificate of proficiency
There are several possible ways to obtain the federal certificate of proficiency:
- Completion of the full three or four year apprenticeship
- Completion of the shortened apprenticeship (entry into the second year of apprenticeship)
- Validation of educational achievements
- outside of a regulated course of study
At the end there is the qualification procedure (final apprenticeship examination).
Completing a full or shortened apprenticeship requires an apprenticeship contract. There is no legal claim to this.
Only attending the vocational school is not intended and there is no legal entitlement to this either.
In any case, the path to the federal certificate of competence requires a high level of personal commitment: be it when applying for a further training contract or when acquiring the necessary education informally.
Graduations in numbers
The number of successfully completed professional certificates fell slightly for the first time in 2018 compared to the previous year.
| year | 1990 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apprenticeship | 1541 | 1936 | 2081 | 2130 | 2251 | 2406 | 2474 | 2526 | 2598 | 1925 | 1574 | 1324 | 1174 | 1034 | 1066 | 750 | 374 | ||||
| Professional certificate | 94 | 99 | 1591 | 2436 | 2894 | 3690 | 4026 | 4309 | 4978 | 5870 | 5917 | 6683 | 6995 | 6948 | |||||||
| total | 1541 | 1936 | 2081 | 2130 | 2251 | 2406 | 2474 | 2620 | 2697 | 3516 | 4010 | 4218 | 4864 | 5060 | 5375 | 5728 | 6244 | 5917 | 6683 | 6995 | 6948 |
Professional certificate in Liechtenstein
The job titles in Liechtenstein correspond to those in Switzerland. Since 2008, diplomas from two years of apprenticeship have been referred to as vocational certificates (BA) . They correspond to the Federal Certificate of Proficiency (EFZ) in Switzerland. The two countries mutually recognize their professional qualifications.
International classification
The professional certificate is a qualification at upper secondary level or ISCED level 3B, but without direct access to tertiary level .
See also
Web links
- Federal Act on Vocational Training, Art. 37 Federal Professional Certificate
- Guide to “Two-year basic vocational training with a federal professional certificate” (PDF; 145 kB), Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology , March 2005
- http://www.eba.berufsbildung.ch/dyn/2678.aspx
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two-year basic vocational training EBA. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
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- ↑ http://www.eba.berufsbildung.ch/dyn/5428.aspx
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- ↑ Decrease in EBA deals in 2018 compared to the previous year. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Basic Vocational Training : Basic Tables - 2018 | Table. April 26, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Explanations of the agreement between the Swiss Federal Council and the government of the Principality of Liechtenstein on the mutual recognition of certificates of proficiency and professional certificates for basic vocational training. Written by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation , Bern
