What language are the courses taught in?
The catalog records a teaching language for 20 of them, and over 10 of those are Swedish. One is recorded as taught in English.
The rest record no language at all, so the course page, and then the provider, is where to settle it.
The catalog shows only what providers have filled in themselves. Where the field is empty the course card says nothing rather than guess. A Swedish course name says nothing certain about the teaching language either.
Which programmes lead all the way to communications officer?
8 programmes carry the job title or a close one in their name, and they come first on the page.
The titles here are written for communications officers and communication strategists, from a full programme to courses on one tool or one sector. The title tells you which kind it is, and the course page tells you how long the programme runs and how it is organised.
What skills does a communications officer need?
The Swedish Public Employment Service occupation data lists, among others, communication strategy, press relations, copy editing, content marketing, publishing on the web and in social media, and graphic design. The courses on this page are arranged in five skill areas after them.
Strategic communication and content are where the catalog has the most courses. The courses in internal and crisis communication are listed under strategy too.
Who provides the communication courses?
Over 10 providers offer at least one course on this page. The largest are Berghs School of Communication (over 10 courses), Sveriges Kommunikatörer (10) and Företagsuniversitetet (4).
Every provider puts its own name on every certificate it issues, and the name on the course card leads to the provider page.
How were the courses on this page chosen?
The skills come from the Swedish Public Employment Service occupation data, which describes what the job asks for. Under each skill are the courses in the catalog whose name is about that skill, and each course appears under one heading.
Matches are read from the course title and not from the provider description, because a description mentions much that the course is not about. A word counts only where it starts a word in the title, and titles that only resemble the subject are excluded by name.
A heading with no courses is not shown, and the list is never filled out with courses that do not belong. The counts change when the catalog does, because every figure is read from the catalog when the page is shown.
Are the courses online or on site?
The catalog records a format for 20 of the courses here: 7 online, 3 blended and 10 on site. Over 20 courses record no format.
Where the provider has filled in the format it is on the course card. Where it is empty, the provider is the person to ask.
Do the courses qualify for Swedish student finance (CSN)?
3 courses here belong to vocational college (yrkeshögskola), and the rest are shorter courses from commercial providers and industry bodies.
Student finance from CSN belongs to vocational college and other regulated forms of education. Whether a course is open for applications, what it costs and when it next starts are questions for the provider.
What does a verified certificate prove?
That the provider named on the certificate issued it to the person named on it, and that an employer can check it directly with the provider.
Together they have issued over 1,000 certificates. Over 20 courses have issued at least one, and the rest have not issued any yet.
Sources
Where these numbers come from.
