Restructuring successfully completed

SFUVET provides professional organisations, sponsoring authorities, cantons and schools with guidance and support in creating, reviewing and revising training programmes for upper-secondary level VET and tertiary-level professional education. Responsible for this is the Centre for the Development of Occupations (CdO), which was restructured in 2022 in order to provide the best possible support to stakeholders throughout the entire creation, review and revision process. The CdO has integrated the continuing training courses for examiners into its range of services and is now structured into three areas: ‘Vocational Education and Training’, ‘Examiners and Implementation of VET Programmes’, and ‘Professional Education’. 

Guidance and support for new training programmes 

In 2022, the CdO provided guidance and support for various initiatives, including training programmes for two new upper-secondary level vocational qualifications: ‘Solar Installation Technician, Federal VET Diploma’ and ‘Solar Assembly Assistant, Federal VET Certificate’. The project was led by the Polybau Association, which represents the interests of building cladding occupations. Moreover, professional organisations from the construction industry, the electrical engineering sector and the solar industry sector were also involved together with the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE). The speed with which these two new VET programmes were created and the large number of stakeholders involved were two noteworthy features of this project. 

Implementing revised training programmes 

The CdO actively contributed to the implementation of several revised training programmes. These included three revised training programmes for upper-secondary level vocational qualifications: ‘Tinsmith, Federal VET Diploma’, ‘Painter, Federal VET Diploma’ and ‘Tinsmith Assistant, Federal VET Certificate’. The CdO also assisted with revision of training programmes and examinations for two tertiary-level professional qualifications: ‘Insurance Specialist, Federal Diploma of Higher Education’ and ‘Insurance Expert, Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education’. Work on these two qualifications began in 2021 and was completed in 2022. 

With 6,190 participants (2021: 6,521), demand for training courses for examiners remained at the previous year’s level.