Overall responsibility for educational guidance has been given to the school heads of the upper secondary school. They have to ensure that the pupils obtain guidance on the educational choices at the school as well as guidance to further studies and vocational training. Vocational guidance is concerned both with the labour market as a whole and with individual sectors. Practical guidance on working life is also organized in most of the programmes, and contact with working life is an integral part of teaching. Cooperation between schools and working life proceeds partly through the medium of joint committees for the programmes of local upper secondary schools.
Some municipalities also have joint planning committees.
Teachers Teachers of general subjects have a university degree in two or three subjects. They have also received one year's training in the theory and practice of teaching, subsequent to their subject studies. Upper secondary schools also have subject teachers with a Ph.D. degree or similar qualification. Vocational teaching in upper secondary schools is provided by subject teachers with advanced economic or technical qualifications or by vocational teachers who have completed vocational training and studies of vocational theory. They have also acquired long experience of their trades and undergone teacher training at institutes of education.