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KELA (Social Insurance Institution of Finland) attends to matters related to student benefits. Student benefits include:
The aim of student welfare is to promote the learning, health and well-being of students.
Student welfare means the services of psychologists, school social workers and school health care. Student welfare is executed as multidisciplinary co-operation between Education Division and Welfare Division. Close co-operation is conducted with students and their parents as well as with other partners in co-operation if needed. Student welfare is organized as communal student welfare and individual student welfare.
If your illness has lasted for over three months or is permanent, you have a right to receive medical supplies in accordance with your medical treatment plan free of charge. As a client of Turku health centre you can pre-order the supplies and reclaim them from the Medical Supplies Distribution pickup point after three weeks.
Both the Medical Supplies Distribution pickup point and nurses’ practice are located in the area of the Mäntymäki hospital. Book an appointment for a nurse if you need guidance in the use of medical supplies.
The vocational education of adults consists of basic degrees, which are completed by passing the competence-based qualifications, and of further vocational qualifications and specialist vocational qualifications. Young persons and adults can study the same basic degrees. Vocational further education and training as well as continuing education are possible at different phases of career. In addition to education institutions, learning also takes place at workplaces. The joint application system is not applied to competence-based qualifications that are primarily aimed at adults.
Apprenticeship training is a flexible and practical form of education where the student and the employer together make a contract of employment and training. The student must find the apprenticeship job him/herself.
Apprenticeship training will be suitable for you if
- you lack vocational training
- your duties at work have extended
- you want a new occupation
- you want to develop your expertise and know-how
Learning takes place mainly at the workplace with practical tasks, which is supplemented by studies at the institute.
Various options available
You can apply to numerous Turku Vocational Institute (TAI) education programmes throughout the year.
You can also enquire about available study places directly from the institutions themselves:
Services for everyday life and special occasions
Child care, conference services, or warm, freshly baked bread? The services of Turku Vocational Institute are easily attainable. At our Institute, you can have calling cards made, get your favourite trousers fixed, or get your tyres changed. These types of services offer our students opportunities to practice for the real working world. All work is carried out under the close guidance of a trained professional.
The services are offered mainly in finnish.
Hairdresser student Laura Baudini’s weeks in Turku
Spring brought not only sunshine but also a radiant visitor from the small French town of Villefranche de Rouergue near the Pyrenees. Her two-week visit to Finland and practical training at the Bleis Salon under the guidance of owner Heli Tikkanen evidently went swimmingly, because Laura Baudini says she would like to come back to Finland again.
Novia UAS is located at two addresses in Turku, at Henrikinkatu and Juhana Herttuan puistokatu where the maritime education is given. At Henrikinkatu there are students within several different fields. Prospective Bachelors of Social Services, Bachelors of Health Care, and Bachelors of Business Administration are gathered in the renovated campus.
Diaconia University of Applied Sciences' (Diak) Turku campus is located at Old Mill, Kupittaa. In Turku it is possible to study a Bachelor’s degree in interpretation through the programmes of Community Interpreting or Sign Language and Interpreting. Diak also offers Master level education in interpreting.
Turku University of Applied Sciences is an inspiring community of altogether 10 000 experts. You, too, can become a member through over 60 study options in the joint application every spring and autumn, or through the Open UAS path. At TUAS, you can study culture and the creative field, technology, social and health care or business. The competence spearheads of TUAS include marine technology, digitalisation, health promotion and art as a part of a good life.
Åbo Akademi University is an internationally acknowledged research university with an extensive responsibility for providing education in Swedish in Finland. The activities cover research and education in most disciplines from the humanities, pedagogics and theology to social sciences, natural sciences and technology.
The University of Turku (UTU) is an inspiring and international academic community of 25,000 students and staff. We build a sustainable future with multidisciplinary research, education, and collaboration. We educate creative and proactive future experts who will solve complex scientific questions and social issues.
Our graduates have excellent collaboration skills, the ability to create work for themselves and others, and expertise that can be applied to different sectors of society.
The goal of upper secondary school education is to give students wide-ranging all-round education. The upper secondary schools in Turku put emphasis on common responsibility for everyone and co-operation and interaction with the students' guardians.
Applying period for upper secondary schools and vocational institutions: Spring 2023
- application period: Date will be published later.
- online applications must be saved by (date will be published later) (www.studyinfo.fi)
- Toisen asteen hakuopas 2023 (pdf) in Finnish and Swedish
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In the national core curriculum the schools and education institutions are encouraged to co-operate actively with companies and communities as a part of schoolwork and studying. The aim is to use multiform learning environments to increase know-how.
The management of the schools and education institutions as well as the teaching and education personnel need to be aware of the statutes concerning marketing and sponsorship when they are representing their school or education institution in corporate or community co-operation.
Special support is given to students whose growth, development or learning goals would otherwise not be fully met. The task of special support is to give the student comprehensive and systematic support so that the student can finish their compulsory education and get a foundation for postgraduate studies after comprehensive school. The student’s self-esteem, study motivation, and the possibilities to experience success and the joy of learning are strengthened. The student’s participation in and responsibility of studying is being supported.
Intensified support is given to students who need regular support in their learning and school attendance, or who need several forms of support at the same time. The support is based on the pedagogical assessment written in co-operation between the student, guardian and teachers. The forms of support, responsibilities and co-operations are marked in more detail in the learning plan which is also a work of co-operation. From the learning plan the guardian can get information to better support their child.
The following forms of support are used to support learning and school attendance at all levels of support – general, intensified and special support:
General support is part of the everyday school life. It does not require special examinations or decisions. A positive atmosphere in the classroom is an important part of general support. Functional interaction contributes to the learning of each student. The students’ needs for support are answered, for example, with:
The principle concerning compensation for personal possessions of students at Turku City schools is that everyone is responsible for the damage they cause for themselves.
Getting compensation requires a responsibility criterion. The Tort Liability Act is applied to compensated cases.
In an emergency situation call 112 and act according to instructions.
A school accident is a sudden incident that happens at school or on the way to school and causes an external bodily injury. Also injuries sustained during a study visit, field trip, camp, club activity or on the way directly to any such activities will be compensated, if the activities are part of the school’s action plan.
Students are expected to choose a public, safe route on their way to school. In order to get compensations the accident must be reported to a teacher or school nurse immediately.