Tag: Basic education
Job growth is recovering, but unemployment is slowly rising in Finland
The employment rate for the age group 20–64 was 77.8% and for the traditional 15–64 age group 74.1%. The development of the employment rate has remained relatively stable in a horizontal direction since last fall. “We had quite a shock last month when employment fell sharply in July. Now it looks like it was an…
In most areas of Finland, the population will decrease by 2040, MDI predicts
“Every Fifth desk in a primary school is empty in the average school” Rasmus AroMDI expert, crystallized For YLE on Wednesday. The number of children of primary school age will not return to the current level without a substantial increase in the birth rate. Statistics Finland reported in July that the number of live births…
According to the Finnish Kennel Club, Mäntsälä is the most dog-friendly municipality
Dogs are an integral part of many people’s lives and offer opportunities for outdoor activities and hobbies. “Local municipal services and dog-friendliness have a significant impact on the everyday lives of dog owners and dog enthusiasts. Good services facilitate activities such as walking the dog, dog-related hobbies and promote the well-being of dogs. Dog enthusiasts…
Record number of applications for afternoon activities, all 1st and 2nd grade applicants get a place
Activities include playing and spending time with friends, outdoor activities and exercise, and small trips to the surrounding area. The needs and wishes of each group are taken into account when planning the activities. By Outi Salo, director of basic education, the number of applications for afternoon activities reached a record 9,300 this year. Next…
People with high incomes voted more often than people with low incomes in the 2023 parliamentary elections
It has been clear before that people with low incomes are more likely to abstain from voting,” says Sami FredrikssonStatistics Finland’s leading actuary. Education also showed a clear correlation with voting activity, as highly educated persons voted more often than the average population in parliamentary elections. “The voting percentage of those with a higher university…
Helsinki proposes more flexibility for applying to upper secondary schools – a new upper secondary school is also coming!
The new high school application method is expected to serve the needs of young people in different life situations and make it easier to get into high schools. High school students could apply four times a year through the opintopolku.fi online application service and each school’s own application system. High schools that require an entrance…
Finnish researchers emphasize differentiation and diversity in Finnish elementary schools
Researchers attribute this to increasing segregation between schools and students. The book argues that basic education has a wider role than just improving academic results, as it is essential to building a better future society. However, there are no simple solutions to stop the current trend of differentiation, but long-term structural changes at the local…
Entrepreneurs propose solutions to alleviate the labor shortage with flexible residence permits and language services
Manai also added that Finland is an excellent choice for both work and study, thanks to the high-quality education and safe living environment. However, the country has failed to attract enough foreign workers and students. Finnish Entrepreneurs have made several proposals to solve the issue, including prioritizing the integration of skilled workers’ family members, supporting…
The application period for the next school year’s afternoon activity starts on March 6
Children participate in meaningful activities in a safe environment after the school day. The activity ends either at 16:00 or 17:00. The afternoon activity is for a fee, which includes a snack and insurance. The monthly fee is 100 euros for activities ending at 4:00 p.m. and 120 euros for activities ending at 5:00 p.m.…
A third of Finnish high school students need additional support, learning support reform is needed
Fresh official view The Ministry of Education and Culture demanded a comprehensive reform of learning support from early childhood education to higher education. Luikoliitto supports the implementation of the reform in the next election period. “When the goal is to increase the number of highly educated young people, it is important to keep everyone involved.…
More young people on antidepressants
Education and background Psychoanaleptics are used to treat depression and ADHD, but also dementia. This is probably why the age group 80+ had the highest proportion (over 20 percent) of people on psychoanaleptics. The figures also showed that ethnic Danes were more likely to be on psychoanaleptics than groups with an ethnic background other than…
Guardians praise the early childhood education and preschool education in the capital region
This is evident from the results of the joint municipal survey. Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen and Vantaa organized a survey for the guardians of children in municipal and private early childhood education and pre-school education between October 26 and November 9, 2022. The survey was aimed at all guardians of children in early childhood education or…
The city of Helsinki raises the salaries of several professional groups, offers cultural and sports benefits to the personnel
The goal of the wage development program is to make the city more attractive as an employer and to ease recruitment challenges In the 2022 budget proposal of the city of Helsinki, 5 million euros are allocated to the implementation of the city’s wage development program. The program is used as a basis for the…
In the supplementary budget, the government proposes an additional € 2 billion in defense success
In its second draft amending budget this year, the Finnish government has proposed an increase in net expenditure of around EUR 2.3 billion. The two main areas of spending are national defense, given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and measures to alleviate the harm caused to children and young people by the corona pandemic. "Finland’s security…
Thursday’s newspapers: Finland is preparing for Russian trolls, school holidays "free" loans
Posters slandering a Swedish children’s writer have appeared in Moscow Astrid Lindgren natsina. It said Hufvudstadsbladet says that Finland will probably see similar advocacy campaigns as Russia tries to justify its actions in Ukraine. A Swedish military expert told HBL Carl Gustaf Emil MannerheimFinland’s best-known war leader and long-term president Urho Kekkonen were likely candidates…
Helsinki’s basic education is praised in customer surveys – guardians’ satisfaction with school and education is growing
The results of the customer survey are very good. Overall satisfaction with caring for school and education is high and has risen from a previous survey two years ago. Student satisfaction remained unchanged. Overall parental satisfaction was 6.1, while student satisfaction was 5.7 on a scale of 1 to 7. The survey was conducted in…
The Minister postpones the municipal strike in the Helsinki region
The Minister of Labor has postponed the service, school and kindergarten strike in the municipalities of the Helsinki metropolitan area for two weeks. Tuula Haatainen (SDP). The strike was scheduled to begin on April 19, but the Finnish national labor mediator asked Haatainen to postpone it. As a result, the one-week strike is now scheduled…
A strike by the municipal sector struck four cities
Thousands of municipal workers, including teachers, early childhood educators, psychologists and social workers, went on strike in four Finnish cities on Wednesday as the largest industrial action in the municipal sector for decades. The measure, called by the Public Sector Professional Consultative Organization (Juko), aims to put pressure on employers to resolve contractual disputes that…
The municipal strike closes schools in four cities
The cities of Rovaniemi and Oulu, among others, have announced a possible strike by municipal employees, which would affect the opening hours of schools and kindergartens on Wednesday and Thursday. Collective bargaining between employers ‘representatives and municipal workers’ unions has stalled, and unions are now calling for a strike that threatens to shut down schools…
Monday newspapers: Problems with Tesla and train traffic and Helsinki discusses teaching in English
Helsingin sanomat newspaper says the City of Helsinki has decided to increase English – language teaching in schools as politicians demand more English – language services and training. In February, a number of city councilors took the initiative to make English the official administrative language of Helsinki alongside Finnish and Swedish. Last August, the mayor…
Finland expects 40,000-80,000 Ukrainians
According to the latest estimates of the immigration authorities, Finland expects 40,000–80,000 refugees from Ukraine. According to the director of immigration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 3.6 million Ukrainians have fled the country, and the number is likely to grow rapidly. Sanna Sutter. "It has become clear that it is not possible to…
Ukrainian children start school in Tampere
A group of Ukrainian schoolchildren have started classes in Tampere. A total of 39 Ukrainian children have arrived in Tampere since the outbreak of the war in their home country. Lessons at Pellervo School in the city’s Kaleva district began Monday morning as the week was intense with their arrival last week. Director of Basic…
Friday’s newspapers: Russian income, inflation, Ukrainian children at school
Jyväskylän Central Finland is among the magazines telling the interior minister Krista Mikkonen (Green) told Parliament on Thursday that the Finnish authorities have a good idea of who is arriving by train from Russia. The statement is an answer to a question from an opposition Finnish MP, who expressed concern that there may be people…
The idea of introducing English as a service language arose in Helsinki
“Multilingualism has significant economic benefits despite its costs. Linguistic accessibility would make it easier for international talent and students to stay in Finland, for example. ” Mayor of Helsinki Juhana Vartiainen (NCP) last summer presented the opportunity to declare the capital an English-speaking city Interview with Helsingin Sanomat. He told me the newspaper last month…
EVA: The proportion of women in management positions is the highest ever in Finland
Emilia KullasThe head of the EVA pointed out that the minimum requirement for gender representation in the Equality Act is 40%. A gender representation of 40-60% can be interpreted as an indication that gender equality is also achieved in terms of promotion. Finland still lags behind Latvia (46.2%), Sweden (43.1%), Bulgaria (42.4%), the United States…
Helsinki after school clubs outdoors during January
After the first and second grade children ‘s schooling, club activities will be held outdoors in Helsinki in January due to the deteriorating coronavirus situation. City officials hope the change will help reduce close contact between children and limit potential exposure to the virus. Schools in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area also aim to avoid confusion…
THL study: "What comes to" an increase in depression and anxiety among college students
Research on the health and well-being of Finnish university students has shown that one in three suffers from symptoms of anxiety and depression. This, according to the study, has relatively more mental health symptoms and mental suffering than the adult population as a whole. In February and March of this year, more than 6,000 students…
The growing need for support challenges the realization of equality in education
The Education Evaluation Center FINEEC has compiled a publication on equality and equity in education. The publication deals with the differentiation of know-how, equality of opportunity and the accessibility and inclusion of education, mainly on the basis of evaluation data produced by FINEEC in recent years. FINEEC also makes recommendations to address deficiencies. According to…
Soste: The educational level of young Finns has fallen below the OECD average
The educational level of young people in Finland has fallen from the top of the industrialized countries to the middle level, says the Confederation of Finnish Social and Health Care. Contrary to popular belief, young adults are not necessarily more educated than retiring age groups. According to the association, the level of education could be…
The new strategy aims to close the childhood literacy gap in Finland
According to the National Board of Education, there is a clear gap in the literacy skills of children and adolescents. This is reflected in the fact that some primary school children can read long texts with little effort and evaluate the reliability of online sources, while others still have reading difficulties in high school. One…
OECD: Finland has a handful of cuts in education expenditure per student in 2012–2018
The numbers are shown Education at a glance, An annual report published by the OECD. The latest iteration of the report focuses in particular on equity in education and emphasizes that gender is still strongly correlated with educational choices in all Member States, including Finland. However, in addition to gender, the socio-economic status of parents…
The Finnish THL survey reveals a gap in the well-being of girls and boys
Nearly 265,000 young people in years 4-5 and 8-9 in primary education and in years 1-2 in vocational and general secondary education responded to the survey last spring. Similar gender differences were also observed two years earlier, but it appears that girls ’well-being has deteriorated further, causing a significant gap, especially at the upper end…
Third of Finnish teachers mulling career change due to epidemic
“This is an alarmingly and unprecedentedly high proportion. The responses reflect the heavy burden placed on teachers and administrators,” stated Olli Luukkainen, the chairperson at OAJ. The trade union interviewed almost 1,900 teachers about their experiences of teaching during the coronavirus pandemic between May and June. More than half of the responses came from teachers…
Many young Finns who do not have a post-primary education place after leaving school are raised
Institutions may also open new application periods to fill vacancies that have not been filled through the national joint application procedure. “The final situation will only become clear after August,” he told STT. If a young person who has completed primary school is left without a place to study, the basic education study counselors will…
The Finnish Teachers’ Union expresses frustration with the uncertainty of the school year
– Last weekend looked like the biggest festival weekend [of the year] in the country, and then a ministry official talks here about distance learning. This is really confusing, this conversation. “ Misukka referred to a statement he made last week Kirsi Varhila, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Varhila stated In YLE’s…
The matriculation examination must be offered in English
The provision of basic education in English as the language of instruction has grown significantly. At the same time, the demand for English-language courses in high school has also increased. That is why it has become increasingly important to give students the opportunity to also complete a matriculation examination in English. This would serve in…
Eagle increases portion sizes for distance students
Package of crispbread, spreads and whole cucumber. These are some of the things that bring together the meals offered to high school students in the city of Southeast Kotka during their distance learning. The change follows feedback after the first week of distance learning, which suggested that meals lacked both portion size and side dishes.…
Officer’s new chairman: We must have more quality in the police
This is how it sounds from the Police Association’s new front figure. At the end of January, Claus Oxfeldt was replaced by Heino Kegel on the post of Federal President, and he hopes for a change of course. – I agree that we need to be more, but I really miss a focus on quality…
Yle investigation: Authorities, school failed Koskela victim
Social services and schools failed to help or protect a 16-year-old boy before he was killed in Koskela in early December, according to an Yle investigation. Last week, prosecutors filed murder charges against three teenagers in relation to the boy’s death. According to the police’s preliminary investigation, the victim was subjected to a prolonged period…
HS: The growth of vocational school drop-outs raises concerns about distance learning in Finland
The daily newspaper identified the shift to distance education, which tried to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus, as a key reason for the increase in dropouts. Arja KukkonenThe Director of Vocational Education of the City of Helsinki stated that the City has already stated that the transition to distance learning has had a…
FACTS: Students need fewer exams and final exams
All parliamentary parties except the Alternative have on Friday agreed on how the summer’s exams and final exams should be conducted as a result of the corona situation that has sent the students home. Here are the main points of the agreement: * Primary school: 9th grade must take four tests: Danish (oral and written),…
Monday’s papers: Distance learning, wave of infections in Turku, Christmas tree
The capital Helsingin sanomat newspaper is one of the articles that examines the distance education research conducted in Finland last spring by the Finnish Education Evaluation Center. As the article states, the coronavirus epidemic brought what it calls "an unprecedented upheaval" in Finnish schools when they suddenly switched to distance learning for two months. The…
Youth education is guaranteed a boost in the Finance Act
– We must stop sawing in the branch we ourselves are sitting on, and start investing in youth education, says political leader Sofie Carsten Nielsen (R). – Last year we stopped the bleeding, and this year we set aside money for a professional boost. It has been very important for the Radicals, she said on…
Denmark’s ‘Ghetto List’ dropped drastically from last year
Gone is a dozen bakers The 13 areas removed from the list this year compared to 2019 are: Lundtoftegade, CopenhagenBispeparken, CopenhagenHørgården, CopenhagenGadehavegård, Høje-TaastrupKarlemoseparken, KøgeAgervang, HolbækLindholm, GuldborgsundKorsløkkeparken, Odense EastKorskærparken, FredericiaMunkebo, KoldingFinlandsparken, VejleResedavej / Nørrevang II, SilkeborgSkovgårdsparken, Aarhus Since 2010, Denmark has kept an official list of the vulnerable areas around the country. And since 2018, the…
The government’s list of ghetto areas is shrinking from 28 to 15
The government’s list of ghetto areas has been on a diet. The number of residential areas on the list has dropped from 28 last year to 15 this year. It appears from the list that has been presented on Tuesday by the Ministry of Transport and Housing. Among the 13 residential areas that have been…
Restrictions in the Finnish metropolitan area to set lives to “abstain” in many ways
The limited restrictions contained in the coronavirus are generally valid for three weeks from 18 to 20 December. Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday highlighted that the prevalence of the virus has increased in the metropolitan area in recent weeks, rising from 107.7 cases to 189.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on 15 and 29 November. The incidence…
The Finnish Helsinki Metropolitan Area bans public events for more than 20 people for three weeks
The City of Helsinki said the restrictions will put an end to all team and contact sports opportunities for those over the age of 20 held indoors in the city, as well as in all amateur-level matches, competitions and regional playoffs. Private service providers are asked to follow the same restrictions and adult leisure clubs…
The invitation passes the graduation, Independence Day celebrations in the Finnish capital region
The metropolitan coronavir virus task force wants residents to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people this fall. The recommendation came at the committee’s press conference on Friday. "This recommendation applies to graduation parties, Independence Day celebrations, pre-Christmas gatherings and other Christmas events. It is clear that the safest way to party is in very…
Language classes for children using the dual tradition are in danger when Jyväskylä seeks savings
City of Jyväskylä officials have suggested the possibility of cutting mother tongue teaching, which will end extra classes for children with a home or mother tongue other than Finnish, Swedish or the Sámi language. City officials have drawn up a savings list that includes a budget for mother tongue heritage education, which currently costs the…
