Documentation and certificates

Everyone who has completed upper secondary school is entitled to have this documented with a certificate or certificate of competence.

Certificate of Upper Secondary Education

To get a Certificate of Upper Secondary Education you must have successfully completed a 3-year educational or training path that leads to university admissions certification or vocational competence. If you are a pupil, it is the school where you successfully complete your education and training that issues the certificate.

Certificate of Competence

Upper secondary education and training that cannot be documented with a Certificate of Upper Secondary Education must be documented with a certificate of competence. A certificate of competence is to show which overall achievement grades and exam grades that have been achieved. If you do not complete a subject at the level designated in the National Curriculum for an overall achievement grade, half-way assessment with a grade will be recorded on the certificate of competence, with a comment.  

A certificate of competence is also used as documentation for completed education/training when you have only had lessons in parts of a subject.

The school in question issues a certificate of competence for its pupils.