Editing Kokkola (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Centria Kokkola.jpg|thumb|[[Centria University of Applied Sciences]]]]
Kokkola has a lot of [[preschool]]s, some of them offer children a bilingual education from an early age (mostly Finnish-English or Finnish-Swedish). There are 25 Finnish-speaking and 8 Swedish-speaking schools. Moreover, there are three secondary schools for Finnish-speaking pupils and one for Swedish-speaking. Some schools offer a [[Dual education system|dual]] [[vocational education]] and training. The [[Chydenius-Institution of Kokkola]], a [[university]] [[consortium]], carries out teaching and research under the auspices of the universities of Jyväskylä, Oulu and Vaasa. It is specialized in adult education. For Finnish and foreign students it arranges open university studies, further education for professionals in the fields of [[education]], [[social services]] and [[health service]]s and [[management]]. [[Centria University of Applied Sciences]] [Finnish name: ''Centria ammattikorkeakoulu''] is also situated in Kokkola having its other partition in Ylivieska and Jakobstad is an international institute offering three different bachelor's degree program in English language along with Finnish.