I have chosen in my study, to do a comparison between pupils´ expectations of the future, how they would meet adult life or working life after their education. These pupils are ending their programmes during this term. One program is Business and Administration Programme and the other programme is Qualified Vocational Education in Business, which is a post-secondary education and training programme. This investigation is done in Haninge municipality.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate if these students´ expectations differ between each other, compared with factors such as age, sex, ethnical origin and different study programmes. Further it has been interested to see how teachers and future employer meet these pupils´ expectations in education or in their planning working life.

There have been two other important questions to investigate in this study. One of the questions has been, how these people see pluralism in today´s society. The other question to investigate has been the importance of these programmes in this municipality. Finally it has been interesting to see if theory tells us something about expectations and changes of younger pupils´ choices in school, and if that differs from this investigation.

This study is based on an investigation through a questionnaire and it is also based on interview surveys. 25 pupils have filled in a questionnaire. In addition I have interviewed one teacher responsible for each programmes, one headteacher from the programme of Qualified Vocational Education in Business, one pupil from that programme and two future employer. The results of my study show that the expectations of the future do not differ between these pupils. They found it important to put up goals to strive for after ending education. Finally all of the people participating in this investigation think that pluralism is important to society.

Key words: Pupils, Expectations, Changes, School, Adult life, Working life, Pluralism,

Business and Administration Programme, Programme of Qualified Vocational Education in Business