The Vocational School of Upper Valais offers a wide range of basic vocational training, inter-company courses, vocational matriculation and continuing vocational education. Every week, about 2000 apprentices from 58 professions, 200 teachers and numerous trainers, parents and guests enter and leave the two sites in Brig and Visp. The BioArk Visp site hosts the life science offerings, including training for laboratory assistants in biology and chemistry.