CONFERENCEProgramme level: Short-cycle professional higher education
Language of instruction: Latvian
Study form and duration: full-time - 5 semesters
Credits: 120 ECTS
Obtainable degree or qualification: Labour protection specialist
Number of students accepted each year: State-funded study places 0, study places for tuition fee 40
Tuition fee per year: 1950 EUR for EU/EEA/Swiss citizens, permanent residence permit holders and their family members.
Study location: Riga
The aim of the study programme is to train a labour protection specialist as a purposeful personality, able to organize, create and manage a work safety system in a company and capable of involving employees in improving their working environment, thus ensuring improvement in the quality of life of all employees.
Programme Director
Ingars Reinholds
Students acquire knowledge of the basics of labour rights, labour protection legislation, assessment of work environment risk factors, basics of occupational health, basics of work ergonomics.
Entitlement to enter bachelor's study programmes or second-level professional higher education programmes, the studies may also be continued in the professional bachelor's programme "Occupational Health and Safety at Work". Furthermore, this education enables the graduate to successfully compete in the labour market in capacity of a labour protection specialist.
Previous education: Secondary education
Competition criteria for persons who have acquired secondary education from 2004:
CE in Latvian language
CE in mathematics*
CE in English or CE in French, or CE in German, or CE in Russian
Average score of all CEs passed by the person
* For persons who have completed secondary education before 2008, the centralized examination (CE) in mathematics may be replaced by the annual grade in mathematics indicated in the secondary education document (or the average grade in algebra and geometry)
Competition criteria for persons who have completed secondary education up to 2004 (excluding), as well as for those who have acquired secondary education abroad, or persons with special needs:
annual average grade in Latvian language and literature
annual grade in mathematics (or average grade in algebra and geometry)
annual average grade in mandatory subjects