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Discontinuation of education

The statistics on discontinuation of education describe discontinuation of post-comprehensive level education by sector of education and by educational institution, field of education and region. The data are produced by combining several register data and published once a year.

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Statistics Finland

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Discontinuation of education increased in upper secondary level particularly in vocational education and decreased in tertiary level education in 2020

In all, 6.8 per cent of students attending education leading to a qualification or a degree discontinued their studies and did not resume them in education leading to a qualification or degree in the academic year 2019/2020. Discontinuation of education in initial vocational education grew by 3.9 p…